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Why Is Sherlock Holmes English? (alistaird221b.blogspot.com)
7 points by KitN 68 days ago
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That's a bit like asking 'Why is Harry Potter not a middle aged white woman?'.

Because writers of fiction don't have to write about themselves and readers of fiction don't always have to read about a depiction of themselves.