Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Ruby Elephants (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
He was absorbed in a periodical from The Royal Institute of Chemistry, while disappearing like a stage magician in a fog of his own tobacco smoke. ‘Do you have any fixed views,’ my friend enquired, ‘on the question of stereochemistry?’ ‘None at all,’ I remarked. ‘I am a perfect blank on the subject.’ ‘Think of it then, as the relative distances between atoms in a molecule. Compare it for example,’ he said, tapping the bowl of his pipe gently, ‘with the variable distances between you and I, and Mrs Hudson downstairs. Together we make up our household, just as atoms make up a molecule. At any one moment our whereabouts can be plotted on a three dimensional model. We would never inhabit exactly the same coordinates twice.’ ‘Oh I don’t know about that Holmes,’ I countered. ‘For instance, you are prone to muse at length in your chair, whereas I am likely to be found at the window, pondering the comings and goings of the street, the perambulations of the flower girls and businessmen.’ ‘Ah, yes,’ agreed Holmes.
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