The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚

My impression was that once you know the conceit of the story, the writing is a swamp to be slogged through to experience the original seed. I am glad I read it, if only to know the original in full—to be able to see the offshoots and deviations of later works. The warping of the ur narrative.

All that being said, I did like these lines:

The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition;

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.

To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations

it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.