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Chapter 3: A Case of Identity

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"My

dear

fellow,"

said

Sherlock

Holmes

as

we

sat

on

either

side

of

the

fire

in

his

lodgings

at

Baker

Street,

"life

is

infinitely

stranger

than

anything

which

the

mind

of

man

could

invent.

We

would

not

dare

to

conceive

the

things

which

are

really

mere

commonplaces

of

existence.

If

we

could

fly

out

of

that

window

hand

in

hand,

hover

over

this

great

city,

gently

remove

the

roofs,

and

peep

in

at

the

queer

things

which

are

going

on,

the

strange

coincidences,

the

plannings,

the

cross-purposes,

the

wonderful

chains

of

events,

working

through

generations,

and

leading

to

the

most

outre

results,

it

would

make

all

fiction

with

its

conventionalities

and

foreseen

conclusions

most

stale

and

unprofitable."

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