Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
"Yes.But there,at the very start,I made a grave error.I permitted myfeeling-my very strong feeling about the letter-to remain a mereimpression.I treated it as though it had been an intuition.In awell-balanced,reasoning mind there is no such thing as an intuition-aninspired guess!You can guess,of course-and a guess is either right orwrong.If it is right you call it an intuition.If it is wrong you usually dono speak of it again.But what is often called an intuition is really animpression based on logical deduction or experience.When an expert feelsthat there is something wrong about a picture or a piece of furniture or thesignature on a cheque he is really basing that feeling on a host of smallsigns and details.He has no need to go into them minutely-his experienceobviates that-the net result is the definite impression that something iswrong.But it is not a guess,it is an impression based on experience.
The Birth of Venus
"Eh bien,I admit that I did not regard that first letter in the way Ishould.It just made me extremely uneasy.The police regarded it as a hoax. I myself took it seriously.I was convinced that a murder would takeplace in Andover as started.As you know,a murder did take place. "There was no means at that point,as I well realized,of knowing whothe person was who had done the deed.The only course open to me was to tryand understand just what kind of a person had done it. "I had certain indications.The letter-the manner of the crime-the personmudered.What I had to discover was:the motive of the crime,the motive ofthe letter."
The Birth of Venus

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