Biblioteca Digitale per i Ciechi |
Distributore BDCiechi |
Frase del giorno: | Per quanto valga un uomo, non avrà mai un valore più alto di quello di essere uomo (Antonio Machado) |
Santi del giorno: | Sant'Agnese da Montepulciano, Sant'Adalgisa, Santa Sara di Antiochia, Sant'Eugenio, Sant'Ugo d'Anzy-Le-Duc, San Teodoro Trichinas, San Marcellino d'Embrun, Sant'Anastasio di Antiochia, Beata Odetta, Beato Simone da Todi, Beata Leonarda da Bologna, Beata Chiara Bosatta, Beato Domenico Vernagalli |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four
Chapter I
The Science of Deduction
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.
...to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid."
"But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts."
"Some facts should be suppressed, or at least a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes by which I succeeded in unraveling it.
...
[Fine del testo di assaggio]
Torna a inizio pagina
Curatore della Biblioteca Digitale per i Ciechi: Carmelo Ottobrino |
Software Copyright © 2010-2024 Giuliano Artico |