《福尔摩斯探案集·铜山毛榉案》第1节
“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of The Daily Telegraph, “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.” “And yet,” said I, smiling, “I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records.” “You have erred, perhaps,” he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—“you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing.”
注释摘要
福尔摩斯把《每日电讯报》的广告版往旁边一扔，说了一句很能代表他思维习惯的话：对于一个真正热爱一门艺术的人来说，最强烈的乐趣往往来自这门艺术最不起眼、最卑微的表现形态。他把这层意思套在了华生的写作上——他认可华生总算抓住了这个道理，没有把笔墨全花在那些轰动的大案要案上，反而选了那些表面看来微不足道的小事件来记录。福尔摩斯还加了一句，说华生偶尔还“加以润色”。…