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The Minimum Complication Toward the End Is Not Desire

Sherlock Holmes is a flat character. It just has one motivation. And that doesn't mean like interesting and non interesting or main character inside character, which I also think it sometimes gets collapsed to. He's the pathology of that one motivation that makes him an interesting character in, in, in BBC Sherlock. The detective and you are wrapped up in the same thing. Right. That's what makes them so absorbing. But he does say that in beyond the pleasure principle in 1924, he does says that. Yeah. No, no, no, for other people. You know, but I'm just saying.

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