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“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” - R. L. Stevenson "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

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Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”

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"Smart man!" He replied, a chipper tone to the blonde's candor. He reached into his coat, retrieving a pen and a small travel journal. A page was torn from the book with swiftness, not scratched in a decently legible cursive.

"The bloke operates out South Hampton. Been a loyal little lackey a good five years, takes his payments up front."

Hyde passed the note to the other with a strange friendliness, as if he were recommending an accountant or lawyer. "Tell him the Ripper gives his regards, and ol' Jamie will treat you right. On that, you have my word."

He was skeptical of stuff like this - he usually tended to pick who he trusts very carefully, and this stranger, who admittedly he was getting along with quite well, claims to have a contact for him.

Well... if it turned out to be a trick, he knows just what this man looks like now. Would be a fun exercise, tracking him down to kill him. Best case scenario though, this was someone Matthew could at least do pretty reasonable business with.

"Alright, you've gotten me curious. Can't say I'd mind meeting with them, if nothing else."

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"You guess is as good as mine, love. A bit of Mad Science has only ever served me well."

"What's wrong with being a mad scientist?"

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Strange to believe it, but once upon a time.. Jekyll and Hyde were friends.

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"The problem with humanity, my dear- is that they hate what they can never understand."

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Character Biography

Name: Professor Edward Mulligan Hyde Aliases: Jack the Ripper, James Moriarty, The Patriarch Born: July 7th, 1821 technically

Edward Hyde was not intended to exist.

That has never stopped him, mind you. What a man was SUPPOSED to do was not the sole defining factor in any choice that this man has ever made.

Some of it is the story you know- after all, the novel was an ever-so-popular penny dreadful. Picture Perfect Doctor Henry Jekyll, alchemist and physician attempted to formulate a means to chemically abate his hungers and deepest desires, those parts of himself too shameful to indulge in the eyes of a Victorian gentleman.

But HJ-7 was no mere change in appearance. No, after decades of Jekyll pushing down and suppressing that which he despised most of himself, he had created something dark. Some venomous creature that, with the introduction of the formula, could take form and run free in the world of Man.

It was entirely on accident. Hyde was never supposed to happen. the formula had supposed to been a suppressor of intrusive thoughts and urges. It was supposed to be a medicine. A means of shutting down the parts of onesself that the subject felt unbecoming. Instead, it set those parts of you free, as their own person.

For a time, Jekyll and Hyde had an ammenable agreement. Hyde would sate all those unseemly needs away from Jekyll's eyes, and even help Jekyll's success grow in his antics. Continuing their work while Jekyll would rest. In exchange, the good Doctor would fund his escapades, and protect Hyde from consequences.

But sometime in 1825, something... changed. Jekyll disappeared, and Hyde was in complete control. Not just of the body, but all Jekyll's assets.

What was more, the man had discovered an alchemical formula that, when taken intravenously on an annual basis, could slow the aging process to a crawl.

Wealthy, free, and nearly immortal, the man now roams the world seeking mischief, causing problems, and chasing power.

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"My mercy's long since drowned. It died to bring me home. And as long as you're around My family's fate is left unknown."

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'A Christmas Story' Starter Sentences

Sentence starters taken from the 1983 holiday comedy film A Christmas Story. TW for cursing, sex references, and violence. Change pronouns and tenses as necessary, and enjoy!

"I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!"

"Another shot of mysterious, inexorable, official justice."

"Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man."

"That son of a bitch would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!"

"NOT A FINGER!"

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."

"Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness."

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

"Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?"

"He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny!"

"He looks like a pink nightmare!"

"Oh my god, I shot my eye out!"

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

"[NAME] had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl."

"They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears."

"What is the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse?"

"Aaah! "Fra-GEE-leh!" It must be Italian!"

"BB guns are dangerous. I don't want anyone shooting his eye out."

"Don't you touch that! You were always jealous of this lamp!"

"That's ridiculous. Jealous. Jealous of WHAT? That is the ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire LIFE!"

"A Major Award? Shucks, I wouldn't know that. It looks like a lamp."

"Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! The fuse is out."

"This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."

"There has never been a kid who didn't believe vaguely but incessantly that he would be stricken blind before he reached 21, and then they'd be sorry."

"Every family has a kid that won't eat. My little brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years."

"That Christmas would live in our memories as the year we were introduced to Chinese turkey. And all is right with the world."

"The line waiting to see Santa Claus stretched all the way back to Terre Haute. And I was at the end of it."

"Mom, this is just the same old dumb parade as last year."

"The heavenly aroma still hung in the house. But it was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey Hash! Turkey a la King! Or gallons of turkey soup! Gone, ALL GONE!"

"Yeah, another one of my silly puzzles. This one could be worth FIFTY THOUSAND BUCKS."

"Yes, clearly, a little bribe never hurts."

"Those icicles have been known to kill people!"

"Mothers know nothing about creeping marauders burrowing through the snow toward the kitchen where only you and you alone stand between your tiny, huddled family and insensate evil."

"I want an Official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle."

"I asked my old man about sticking your tongue to a flagpole in the winter, and he says that it'll freeze right to the pole, just like I told ya."

"Ah, baloney. What would your old man know about anything?"

"Was there no end to the conspiracy of irrational prejudice against Red Ryder and his peacemaker?"

"How are they going to deliver a bowling alley here tonight?"

"Adults loved to say things like that but kids knew better. We knew darn well it was always better not to get caught."

"Listen, jerk! When I tell you to come, you better come."

"What, you're gonna cry now? Come on, crybaby! Cry for me, come on! CRY!"

"My mother hadn't had a hot meal for herself in fifteen years."

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"A pig farm is more efficient. Toss the head in a mulcher and mix it with the feed, and those hogs will make the mess disappear easy as a breeze in Bristol."

How long had it been since he had a like mind to talk shop in? Decades, perhaps. But this one, he knew the ins and outs. There was an understanding there that felt as if it simply clicked into place. "I have a few buddies I could link you up with. A favor, you could call it."

"I've considered that. Would absolutely need a proper way to dispose of them though... suppose I could just incinerate it when I've finished inspection."

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"We could switch to heads. Hard to identify a body without a face attached to it, and there's little chance of the victim surviving a decapitation."

"I mean, I'm not exactly gonna argue that point. Teeth can be fun. But I don't think teeth, or frankly even fingers, are proof enough for a confirmed kill.

"Though ears probably aren't either, but they're much harder to get ahold of if the intended target isn't dead."

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"I'm particularly fond of teeth as a trophy. Makes the body all that much more difficult to identify as well."

"Who takes fingers as trophies anymore? I thought we all agreed that we take ears as proof these days."

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