晚餐後

My recent leisure reading is Nazotoki Wa Dinner No Ato De (推理要在晚餐後) by Higashigawa Tokuya (東川篤哉).

Contrary to most of the detection fictions I read in recent years, this one was bought by Vivian. Although well infused with amusing details, this tiny paperback could, I'm afraid, only please detective fiction readers who are craving for some new stories - like what a heroin addict finds in methadone.

In my opinion, it is a romantic but naïve idea to have a super-detective who simply sits there, listens to the story, and makes a logical deduction. Sherlock Holmes claimed that he was one of those kinds, but, in reality, he was very much a hands-on person and preferred see to the things himself for some first-hand evidence.

And, it is against normal physiology to have good deductions after dinner. Our biological clock is set in such a way that analytical function is best early in the morning, with a second but lower peak in the late afternoon.  As to the period after dinner, the best type of mental activity is Brownian movement of synapses.