The Lost Days of Agatha Christie
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by roger
The persistent effort of so-called modern minds to explain mysteries can yield nothing in the long run but the nostalgic satisfaction of the small boy who discovers at last that his mechanical duck was made up of two wheels, three springs and a screw — objects which are doubtless reassuring, but he has lost his mechanical duck, and he has usually not found an explanation as to how it works.
· Carole Owens, The Lost Days of Agatha Christie
Related posts:
- The Idler 79 Amongst the painters and the writers on painting there is one maxim universally admitted and continually inculcated. ‘Imitate nature’ is the invariable rule, but I...
- The Chinese Orange Mystery And yet, I have found that nothing in this world is incapable of explanation if only one is smart enough or lucky enough to think...
