No Surprises
Jul 12th, 2010 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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Sherlock Holmes perfected the art of deduction to the point that he wielded a peculiar form of omniscience over existence. Through his careful, some would say obsessive, calculations and observations, Holmes anticipated even the most esoteric of events before they occurred.
Centuries later, chaos theorists would pour over his extant journals. They became fascinated by his predictions, sometimes so specific that his diary entries anticipated their own research into his system of ideas.
But what they saw as a nearly divine intuition of the universe, Holmes viewed as a curse.
He lived his life bereft of the pleasure of surprise.
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