1:20:07 this description of the street and the discussion gave me a very Lovecraftian vibe, especially reminded me of The Music of Erich Zann, with the street that doesn’t fit and the building going up on top of the others
In regards to the discussion of Stevenson's lack of description of Hyde, I think it goes two ways. It allows the readers imagination to fill in Hyde as whatever is scariest or darkest to them, but I think it's also putting the bait there for readers' own prejudices to be outed. Stephenson simply describes Hyde as detestable, unlikeable, and having an air of deformity; I'm sure that readers of the victorian age and subsequent eras have imagined him as potentially a certain race, or having a physical disability of some kind, or any other physical attribute which a reader might associate with an evil nature. His description is drawing out the darkness of Hyde's character but it's also drawing out the internal darkness of the reader themselves.
Careless infidel would be a troubling epitaph if happened upon in a graveyard for a young man but for an elderly person would be a sign of a life trapped in adolescence and a definite catholic trope.
1:20:07 this description of the street and the discussion gave me a very Lovecraftian vibe, especially reminded me of The Music of Erich Zann, with the street that doesn’t fit and the building going up on top of the others
In regards to the discussion of Stevenson's lack of description of Hyde, I think it goes two ways. It allows the readers imagination to fill in Hyde as whatever is scariest or darkest to them, but I think it's also putting the bait there for readers' own prejudices to be outed. Stephenson simply describes Hyde as detestable, unlikeable, and having an air of deformity; I'm sure that readers of the victorian age and subsequent eras have imagined him as potentially a certain race, or having a physical disability of some kind, or any other physical attribute which a reader might associate with an evil nature. His description is drawing out the darkness of Hyde's character but it's also drawing out the internal darkness of the reader themselves.
Careless infidel would be a troubling epitaph if happened upon in a graveyard for a young man but for an elderly person would be a sign of a life trapped in adolescence and a definite catholic trope.