Curiouser and Curiouser

I've just finished re-reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which is told from the perspective of a fifteen-year-old boy who is autistic, although that is never made explicit in the book. It's funny how things show up in one's life just when one needs them. Although Hyde was not autistic, his mind worked in very autistic-like ways and this book helped illuminate those ways and, in the process, make Hyde more human and vulnerable for me. I have also recognized for years that Hyde was perpetually stuck in a fifteen-year-old's emotional state (the age at which he started becoming really mentally ill), so the book was interesting from that perspective, as well. Here are some excerpts:

p. 12
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

p. 73-74 (in which the narrator is comparing himself to Sherlock Holmes)
I also like "The Hound of the Baskervilles" because I like Sherlock Holmes and I think that if I were a proper detective he is the kind of detective I would be. He is very intelligent and he solves the mystery and he says
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
But he notices them, like I do. And it also says in the book
"Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will."
Also Doctor Watson says about Sherlock Holmes
"His mind...was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted."

p. 116
That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.
But the mind is just a complicated machine.
And when we look at things we think we're just looking out of our eyes like we're looking out of little windows and there's a person inside our head, but we're not. We're looking at a screen inside our heads, like a computer screen.