The Completely Guilty Bystander: A Collection of Casual Observations and One Seriously Dysfunctional Family

After reading Whitmans Leaves of Grass Robert Louis Stevenson called it a book which tumbled the world upside down for me. Stevenson died in 1894 so we can only imagine what he might have thought of The Completely Guilty Bystander. Perhaps after leafing through stories such as Grace Jones and the Garden of Eden Playing Doctor at the Reception or Mortal Combat with the Paper Pillow Mr. Stevensons view of the world might once again have spun dangerously out of control. Maybe Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would have mentioned the hidden but surprisingly possible benefits of organized crime to the community. Or the desperate lengths a man will go to in the course of trying to get his phone service re-connected. The world can only be left to wonder if he even would have added a section on anger in everyday life and how it could relate back to TVs The Incredible Hulk. Of course if Robert Louis Stevenson read those stories today hed be about 150 years old so really that act alone would have been very impressive.