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- From: misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel)
- Subject: Re: Watson's intelligence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.061511.29566@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1993Jan21.024726.5616@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan24.035507.22209@csi.uottawa.ca> <watson.727928486@space.sce.carleton.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:15:11 GMT
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- In article <watson.727928486@space.sce.carleton.ca>, watson@sce.carleton.ca (Stephen Watson) writes:
-
- > *What* comment in _Lion's_Mane_? I just pulled down my Doubleday
- > _Complete_S.H_ and can find nothing that would necessarily imply a
- > lack of intelligence on Watson's part. Rather, Holmes laments the
- > lack of his faithful chronicler on this occasion.
-
- Oops, must be the "Blanched Soldier". Holmes says he found Watson
- useful partly because Watson was the sort of person who could never
- foresee Holmes's actions.
-
- All my quotations are from memory, because all my Sherlock Holmes
- books (yes, I have *lots* of them) are in a storage room back in
- Edmonton. If I had foreseen the creation of this newsgroup, I would
- have brought them to Ottawa. :-(
-
- misrael@csi.uottawa.ca Mark Israel
- Sunbeams brightly play, where Fancy's fair pavilion once is pight.
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