lifting the fog on the mythical moor
a tale by conan doyle
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever obsesses.
We are coming now rather... into the region where we balance probability and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculations.
We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision.
... we hold several threads in our hands, and the odds are that one or other of them guides us to the truth. We may waste time in following the wrong one, but sooner or later, we must come upon the right.
...what do you think of this new light?
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn around us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realised that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.