the first early hominid to make use of metaphor or allegory must have blown the others away, “your actions will have consequences… just like a tree has fruit!” WOOAHHHH holy shit guys did you catch that
one hominid is so impressed that he goes back home and is like “this cave feels so peaceful tonight… just like a tree has fruit” and everyone makes fun of him
whole tribe going completely apeshit at first ever comedian
The other thing I would think about is [R.L. Stine’s] attitude towards work in general. So he obviously, on the one hand, is someone who works really hard. And on the other hand, he’s someone who’s very nontraditional in how he approached work. So he wanted to have a humor magazine and he didn’t care about doing well in school. He just liked writing jokes and then liked writing these books for kids. Like we’ve talked about before, he has this kind of antiauthoritarian attitude. Maybe for him, all work that isn’t work you want to do is bad. Both issues to do with bad workplaces, and then issues to do with classism come up a ton in his work. And I think they’re personal issues for him, too.
I’m in the monster appreciation phase of my bible reading.
The boy who cried negative COVID test.
“The other thing I would think about is [R.L. Stine’s] attitude towards work in general. So he obviously, on the one hand, is someone who works really hard. And on the other hand, he’s someone who’s very nontraditional in how he approached work. So he wanted to have a humor magazine and he didn’t care about doing well in school. He just liked writing jokes and then liked writing these books for kids. Like we’ve talked about before, he has this kind of antiauthoritarian attitude. Maybe for him, all work that isn’t work you want to do is bad. Both issues to do with bad workplaces, and then issues to do with classism come up a ton in his work. And I think they’re personal issues for him, too.”
