"The thing I object to in detective stories," said Mr. Piggott, is the way fellows remember every bloomin' thing that's happened to 'em within the last six months. They're always ready with their rime of day and was it rainin' or not, and what were they doin' on such an' such a day. Reel it all off like a page of poetry." (from Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers)
I'm right there with you, Mr. P. Normal people do not remember things like they do in these stories. I have commented before about how the characters in the Philip Marlowe radio show can remember the address of all their friends? Can you do that?
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There weren't so many addresses back then, right?
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