re: Willful Ignorance
Don't look at me. I had to look up Thomas Carlyle.
We all have priorities. Obviously, to us on this space board, something like the transit of Venus is really cool. To people intensely focused on other things, it might not be. It was established quite early in the Sherlock Holmes stories that he was eccentric. Maybe I should have continued the quote to show the areas where his knowledge was encyclopedic.