Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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On crossing to the opposite side of the street, he saw a second man standing lighting his pipe.
The man is standing, therefore not moving, and there is no mention of a doorway. In the press account:
...a second man came out of the doorway of the public-house a few doors off...
The man is moving, not standing.
The whole notion of a man standing in the doorway, sheltering from the wind that frustrates his efforts to light his pipe, is fiction. Someone offered this fiction here long ago, it's sounds reasonable to yourself and others, so you think of it as though it were evidence. It is not evidence, it is invention.
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