casualmonarch

can i come over and do this at you

We don't talk about classic literature humor enough especially when it comes to "serious stories". Sometimes we treat pre-21st century literature as superior and more serious and that the authors meant business when writing them but we forget that they were written by humans, by artists and humans are silly. Robert Louis Stevenson sat down to write a story about good and evil in the human psyche, inspired by the dichotomy of the brain that was prevalent in Victorian England, how animalistic the upper class was contrary to the actual animal in the story, giggling to himself as he wrote down "If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek" and I think that's beautiful