The Hound of the Baskervilles: Chapter 3 - The Problem
Before Reading
“It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones.”
- COPP
That dog was a mastiff. In movie adaptations of HOUN, it’s common for a Great Dane to play the starring role.
After Reading
“I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world,” said [Holmes]. “In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task.”
Does Sherlock Holmes believe in ghosts? No, if the hound is a ghost, you would have to get a priest (or the Ghostbusters) to solve the problem. But Sir Arthur Conan Doyle definitely did believe in ghosts (and mediums and fairies).
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
Holmes didn’t notice the “poisonous atmosphere” due to inattentional blindness.
Dates: Same day
