From Slate: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wants Nothing To Do With Your Proust Questionnaire

Posted on February 22, 2013 by pastoffences

I have no idea what a Proust questionnaire is, but they seem to have caught ACD on a grumpy day.

I’ve commented before about his nice handwriting. Here’s your chance to have a look…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The author’s taciturn responses to an 1899 version of the Proust questionnaire.

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6 Responses to From Slate: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wants Nothing To Do With Your Proust Questionnaire

  1. Margot Kinberg says:
    February 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM

    Rich – Interesting to have a look at ACD’s actual responses to this. It’s nice actually to see the human side of authors.

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  2. Moira says:
    February 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM

    Very entertaining

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  3. Cavershamragu says:
    February 22, 2013 at 10:49 PM

    Great stuff Rich – I made it to the British Library the other day and got to see his original MS for one of the Holmes stories (The Adventure of the Retired Colourman) in his ultra neat handwriting, which was a real treat.

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  4. Judy Buck-Glenn, Philadelphia, PA, USA says:
    February 25, 2013 at 6:06 PM

    I didn’t think he sounded crabby. I thought he sounded detachedly amused, even slightly satiric.

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