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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Published: 1886 The classic tale of a man struggling with two sides of himself. Dr. Jeckyll has lived a respectable life, but he’s always felt something wicked lurking very close to the surface. He creates a potion to try and restrict this evil part of himself, but it instead brings that evil to the surface and transforms him, in both mind and body, into Mr. Hyde. This is all pieced together over the course of the novella from the view of a London lawyer, and old friend, named Mr. Utterson. After reading American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson’s…
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Address to the Haggis
Happy Burns Night, everyone! I hope you enjoyed some haggis. Here’s Robbie Burns’ ode tae the great chieftain o’ the pudding-race. There’s a translation on Wikipedia. Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race! Aboon them a’ yet tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o’a grace As lang’s my arm. The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin was help to mend a mill In time o’need, While thro’ your pores the dews distil Like amber bead. His knife see rustic Labour dight, An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like…