Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Quote of the Day (Arthur Conan Doyle, on Mediocrity and Genius)


“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”— British mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), The Valley of Fear (1915)

(The image accompanying this post shows Basil Rathbone as Doyle’s great literary creation: Sherlock Holmes. Countless others have played the great detective, but—perhaps because I grew up knowing him first in the role—nobody embodied him so well as Rathbone. Need I say that Inspector Lestrade symbolizes mediocrity and Holmes genius?)

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