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drilpencils · 10 months

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(cartoon by james stevenson, caption by dril)

#stevenson #i have read theposts #the dril yorker

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

#stevenson #robert louis stevenson #quote #harvest #seed #femme #countryside #reap what you sow

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nifrequerne · 10 months

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if you liked nimona the movie i recommend reading the comic so you can be overwhelmed with the amount of things and characters that were cut out

#nimona #stevenson

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boeingboingboing · 2 months

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I love to think Siddeley and Stephenson/Stevenson are besties for one another and they fit all best friend criterias. Who knows, they could get chaotic together too haha. They match each other's vibes fr

#siddeley #Stephenson #cars 2 #pixar cars #my headcanons #Stevenson

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richardmurrayhumblr · 1 year

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Model: Lee Xavier Photographer: Stevenson Jean-Pierre - earless1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/earless1/6922735355/ #rmaalbc #model #xavier

#rmaalbc #lee #xavier #stevenson #jean #pierre #earless1 #black #model #photographer

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c-etait-ailleurs · 5 months

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Jekyll ne souhaite réfréner aucun de ses goûts. Il souhaite seulement les assouvir en secret.

Le sujet ici abordé, dans son aspect le plus fondamental, n'est autre que le conflit entre le ça et le surmoi, le choix entre faire le mal ou s'en abstenir... ou, pour reprendre les termes de Stevenson, entre la répression et l'assouvissement. Ce conflit éternel est la pierre de touche de la religion chrétienne, mais si l'on souhaite l'interpréter en termes mythiques, la dualité Jekyll/Hyde en suggère une autre : celle [...] entre l'Apollinien (la créature d'intellect, de sens moral et de noblesse, la "fleur même des convenances") et le Dionysiaque (le dieu des réjouissances et de l'assouvissement des pulsions ; le côté fêtard de la nature humaine). Et si l'on souhaite aller encore plus loin, on aboutit à une scission entre le corps et l'esprit... ce qui est exactement l'impression que Jekyll souhaite donner à ses proches : c'est en apparence un pur esprit, un être détaché des contingences matérielles. Il est difficile de l'imaginer lisant un journal assis sur un trône.

Stephen King, Anatomie de l'horreur, LdP 2020 p. 171-172

#Stephen King #Stevenson

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eopederson · 1 year

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“Fresh From the Farm,” Sign, Farmers Market, Stevenson, Washington, 2015.

Happy Thanksgiving!

#signs #farmers market #stevenson #skamania county #washington state #2015 #photographers on tumblr #pnw #pacific northwest

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cerebus1963 · 8 months

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Treasure Island / Schatzinsel - Neue Abenteuer

#artists on tumblr #photocollage #photoart #fanart #treasure island #Stevenson

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ailelie · 1 year

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Jekyll & Hyde Thoughts & Reactions (Chapters 1 and 2)

This week's Jekyll & Hyde reminded me to catch up on last week's.

The gist is that Utterson is definitely a secret hedonist and I'd love to see that iron self-control of his crack. The other main points are that Stevenson is very careful with his descriptions (which I like) and he keeps creating divisions where they aren't expected (apt).

Chapter 1

Oh, Utterson. I really, really want a story now where you are entirely undone. I want you tempted with wine and rich chocolates and music. I want you tugged back into a theater and consumed with stories. I want to see you revel in life.

Okay. I already love the Utterson-Enfield dynamic. These two men do not understand each other in the slightest, but they still treasure one another and time together. They gift each other their time and receive that same gift of time with joy, even if they've no idea how to use it.

"like a fire in a forest" gives me a hint of foreboding. Every other description in that paragraph is very positive, but then we get this one hint of absolute devastation before returning to the light and positive. This could be absolutely accidental, but it is like a wrong chord in a lovely melody before it turns into something haunting and menacing. It helps that I've idea where this story is going.

But then, immediately, we get another wrong note--this far more obvious. Amidst all of the welcoming buildings, one block is "sinister." Then the description explains how.

We already know the doctor is Scottish, but Enfield also describes him as "emotional as a bagpipe" just to drive that point home in case we missed his accent. This is making me think the fire description earlier was deliberate.

I wish wish wish whoever is running this substack bothered to add in paragraphs to Enfield's speech.

...seriously, Hyde? You paid with your alter ego's check and expected no consequence?

I really appreciate that, while the look Hyde gives Enfield is ugly, Hyde is not (yet) described as being particularly ugly. It isn't his looks that inspires everyone else to hatred, but rather something far more innate about him.

Enfield doesn't ask questions out of fear of opening up new questions and accidentally hurting someone unrelated to the original query. That is such an interesting character note for him. He's very blasé about it, but it speaks to a deeper sense of compassion and thoughtfulness that hasn't been otherwise shown (except, perhaps, when he collared Hyde). He is a "man about town" but he is also very considerate and thinks not only of the consequences of his actions, but the consequences of those consequences. I'll be interested to see if this holds true throughout or if I'm reading too deeply.

Side note: If the above bullet is true, that is a strong mark in favor of his friendship with Utterson, because I think Utterson would be aware of this aspect of him.

So, I am thinking "your tale has gone home" in this case means that Utterson has taken it to heart. When he asks Enfield to be sure of the details, he is also making sure he hasn't internalized an exaggeration. (Not a bad move on his part since Enfield is prone to exaggeration).

I had to be sure, but "long tongue" means someone who talks a lot and maybe someone who gossips. Utterson definitely wants to know more, which is why he asks they never speak of it again. He denies his wants.

Seriously, I need Utterson to be dragged kicking and screaming into a relationship he desperately wants, but does not believe he should have. I also desperately want to know the root of his austerity. My current hypothesis is that he is an utter hedonist and that terrifies him, so he denies himself everything for fear that if he allows the slightest measure of joy, he won't be able to keep from taking it all. And that would make people talk.

Utterson even calls Enfield "Enfield" while Enfield calls him "Richard." He keeps even his closest friend at a remove.

Chapter Two!

I just love the sentence structure here "And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had swelled his indignation; now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge."

Oh. He worries for Jekyll. "“I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, “and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”"

I really like how Utterson's friends are so unlike himself. Lanyon indulges where Utterson abstains. He is over the top where Utterson is reserved. Yet, at the heart, both are genuine and they recognize that in each other. It is this heart, not the flourishes, that counts.

Lanyon is worried about and angry over Jekyll. I like the call out of Damon and Pythias. That, more than anything else, shows their former friendship as being very deep, founded on mutual faith in each other. Lanyon, though, has lost that faith. ...it also makes me wonder, just a bit, about shipping Jekyll/Lanyon in their college years with that sense of halcyon doom for their relationship falling apart over Jekyll's 'scientific' pursuits.

I'm glad Utterson has a "great, dark bed." It makes me think that there's at least one comfort he gives himself.

Utterson has a rich imagination. Of course he does. I'm sure he tries to leash that as well.

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.” <-I love this. I love every glimpse of the man Utterson tries so hard not to be.

Of course, Utterson has to be this way. In a story about a man literally divided into his angels and demons, we need a protagonist who is likewise, figuratively so divided.

I love the encounter between Utterson and Hyde and how quickly Hyde decides Utterson is lying and that sparks his immediate disgust. Hyde is no demon delighting in others' sins.

Side note: I'd never heard of Dr. Fell before and so I looked him up. Here.

Utterson can find nothing distasteful in Hyde's appearance and yet finds him ugly still because of the feelings (e.g., fear, disgust) Hyde arouses in him. And then he lands on the idea of inner nature affecting outer countenance. But I find that I almost like this take. Hyde's presumed inner nature doesn't physically, literally make him ugly. Rather, it causes others to perceive him as ugly. He could have the most angelic of features, but others would still perceive him as ugly because of his heart. This is a step above "someone is ugly and therefore must be evil." Instead it is "because someone is evil it is impossible to see them as beautiful, no matter how lovely their features."

The above interests me because it is another division of something that seems intrinsic. How someone looks and how they're perceived are usually the same, but here, with Hyde, they are not. He looks one way and is perceived another. Stevenson keeps creating these little divisions. Utterson's inner hedonism and enforced austerity. Enfield is a lighthearted playboy (basically) who is deeply considerate and looking several steps ahead. Lanyon is genuine while appearing false. This division of perception and appearance. Even, perhaps, the rending of Damon and Pythias.

Oh, Utterson knew what Enfield's door was the entire time.

Ooh, Jekyll had a wild youth. This is not discrediting my Jekyll/Lanyon idea at all.

#jekyll and hyde #jekyll & hyde #richard utterson #stevenson #readalong #reactions #chapter 1 #chapter 2

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saralynnx · 1 year

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