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- From: ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff)
- Subject: Re: Watson's intelligence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.131546.109@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:15:46 GMT
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- WATSON'S INTELLIGENCE
-
- I too must protest. While Watson is no genius, he must be
- of above average intelligence to have become a surgeon.
- Holmes himself pays him the complement of saying that while
- Watson is not a conductor of light himself, he has the
- ability to bring out the light of other minds (or words to
- that effect--sorry, but I don't have the canon here to look
- up the exact quote). I think we must also consider that it
- is Watson himself who is telling most of the stories, and
- he is most interested in glorifying his friend Holmes rather
- than immodestly tooting his own horn.
-
- I am extremely impressed with Edward Hardwick's Watson. He
- is anything but the bumbling fool of Nigel Bruce fame (or
- Patrick Mcnee). Hardwick finally is giving the character
- a fair reading.
-
- ~S
- --
- Garth (Haridas) Groff
- "Not yet famous author"
- ggg9y@poe.acc.virginia.EDU Chant "Govinda Bohlo Hare"
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