(1895) Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter One March 24. The spring is fairly with us now. Outside my laboratory window the great chestnut-tree is all covered with the big, glutinous, gummy buds, some of which have already begun to break into little green shuttlecocks. As you walk down the lanes you are conscious of the rich, silent forces of nature working all around you. The wet earth smells fruitful and luscious. Green shoots are peeping out everywhere. The twigs are stiff with their sap; and the moist, heavy English air is laden with a faintly resinous perfume. Buds in the hedges, lambs beneath them– everywhere the work of reproduction going forward! I can see it without, and I can feel it within. We also have our spring when the little arterioles dilate, the lymph flows in a brisker stream, the glands work harder, winnowing and straining. Every year nature readjusts the whole machine. I can feel the ferment in my blood at this very moment, and as the cool sunshine pours through my window I could […]
Category: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Born in May of 1859, began writing while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and was first published at the astonishing age of twenty.
The Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Though his best-known works were crime fiction, he did in fact write a sizable amount of science fiction stories and even the rare occult thriller, such as The Parasite.