Have the tour guide show us how Robert Louis Stevenson was straight up gangsta.
Lots of guns and liquor. He may also have been a cowboy.
Or perhaps some sort of model. Or maybe Buddha's right-hand man.
In this one, he looks like he could have been a vampire. One who collected pointed sticks, perhaps to keep them away from those who wanted to drive them through his heart.
Even in the days of the gangsta-cowboy-model-Buddhist-vampire-werewolf, white people living in the Samoas had to have lots of things shipped to them in order to get by.
A really big front yard. Possibly to allow plenty of space for spotting random people at night before swooping down on them and biting their necks.
Mr. Stevenson, while trying to frighten a small boy, tragically discovered that the new look he has been modeling doesn't work as well as the traditional vampire cape. Or maybe he's teaching his stepson history, like the caption says.
Oh yeah, definitely a vampire. And possibly a model, going by the pose on that statue.
All that shiny silverware and he could never see his reflection in it. What a waste. What a waste.
This? Oh this is just a sculpture on Robert Louis Stevenson's porch about a story where the king of Samoa nearly ate his son.No, really. Click to see a version that I think might be big enough to read.
It's actually a pretty good story.
