Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind, Holmes told Watson, is like an attic. "You have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out." Holmes stocked his own mental attic with a detailed knowledge of chemistry and cigar ashes. Knowing about cigars helped him solve The Boscombe Valley Mystery...
...rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...