Part I, Chapter 2
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose... It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls.Read in Books4Free →
The Brain Attic Metaphor
From A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes's iconic theory that the mind is a finite storage space requiring selective furnishing—justifying his ignorance of the solar system.
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