Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The Agony Column

"He took down the great book in which, day by day, he filed the agony columns of the various London journals. "Dear me!" said he, turning over the pages, "what a chorus of groans, cries, and bleatings! What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!"


(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Red Circle)

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