Diary
Andrew O’Hagan: Stevenson in Edinburgh, 4 January 2024
“... possessed in the waking state.’In his small bedroom, Louis was haunted by a peculiar shade of brown, ‘something like that of sealskin’, and his dream-nature became part of his talent (he called these creative nightmares his ‘Brownies’). Night terrors of intimate brutality might be expected to hasten a delicate literary style, but in RLS’s case ... ”