> On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Dan Plante wrote:
> > Sherlock Holmes
> > and Moriarity could both be seen to have highly complex or "highly
> > evolved" minds (or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even more so).
>
> And remember, Holmes shot-up coke. The "highly emotional" state seems to
> have been a necessary counter-point to this characters "elementary
> deductions".
The way I remember it, Holmes did cocaine when he wasn't solving a case
because it was the only way to temporarily ease the boredom of his
insufficiently occupied mind.
Eva