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Originally Posted by metsjetsrangers
If this interests you, I highly recommend you read the Detective Dupin stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Many believe Poe's stories were the first detective stories of modern literature. The "backwards reasoning" mentioned in your quotation comes from the story "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the other famous story is "The Purloined Letter".
No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin. Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.
- Sherlock Holmes.
edit: and in an attempt to get this thread back on track here's an actual historical quote:
Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten.
Nobody has the intention of building a wall.
- Walter Ulbricht (head of state of the GDR) on June 15 1961, 2 months before the GDR began building the Berlin Wall.
Last edited by monarco; 07-05-2011 at 02:04 AM.
Reason: not sure how popular the Sherlock Holmes books are around here but that's an actual quote.