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A case of identity.

My dear fellow, said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodging's at Baker Street,

life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.

If we could fly out of that window, hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in it the queer things which are going on,

the strange coincidences, the planings, the cross purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations, and leading to the most ultra-results.

It would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

And yet I am not convinced of it, I answered.

The cases which come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough and vulgar enough.

We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits.

And yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.

A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic effect remarked Holmes.

This is wanting in the police report where more stress is laid perhaps upon the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details,

which, to an observer, contain the vital essence of the whole matter.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

I smiled and shook my head.

I can quite understand your thinking, so, I said.

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