To all concerned: I apologize for the inadvertent errors in my fisst
transmission.  Here is a corrected draft.
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>        In the interests of accuracy, referring here to Prof. Rice's use of
>and commentary on Robert Louis Stevenson's narrative depiction of that
>unhappy doppelganger,to state that Dr. Jekyll "was tranformed into the
>infamous Mr. Hyde" is to shift the blame to some vague and unnamed power
>and therefore to misread the "moral" of that novella.  The passive voice
>construction aside, Dr.Jekyll was himself the initiating culprit as well
>as the victim of that deliberate slide into self-destruction.
         He began, he himself tells us, by pondering too long on "those
>provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature. . .
>. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the
>intellectual," he confesses, "I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth,
>by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck:
>that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two because the state of my
>own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.  Others will follow, others
>will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will
>be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious,incongruous, and
>independent denizens."
>        Being a "scientist" and physician, he naturally has his own
>laboratory,in which he begins experimenting on himself and becomes
>inexorably addicted to a concoction of his own making--which ultimately
>leads to his doom, to the distress of those around him.
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>        I, for one, do not sense,first,that this is the way Prof. Rice
>reads this novel or his memory of it--for many, it HAS been a long time
>since they read it); or second, that (to quote him) "Supporters of the
>implementation plan we are asked to vote on tomorrow have resurrected this
>imagery--i.e., his own misreading--in their arguments."
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>        Again,I for one share many of Prof. Rice's concerns; but I DO hate
>to see a worthy piece of fiction distorted and used for a purpose far
>other than an aesthetic and enlightening one.
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>t.c. ware

t.c. ware