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...Stevenson Myth." It is an open question whether Stevenson is loved more for his work or his work for him. Certainly the worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths???lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile...
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