What child has not read Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson’s gripping tale of mindless schizophrenia and bloodthirsty lunacy?  In the story, the benevolent doctor transforms himself by means of a potion of his own invention into an assassin and disemboweler. 

Perhaps this story was inspired by madmen and psychopaths that Stevenson had met in his own life.  If so, and if the book is faithful to some real prototype, it might be profitable to ask whether someone like Jekyll-and-Hyde started his career at the summit of psychosis, or whether he advanced by small degrees from a mild sort of neurosis into the monstrosity that he became.

If, as I suppose, a Jekyll-and-Hyde case evolves gradually from a less dramatic sort of madness, or, if you will, an innocuous case of balminess and battiness, we may well ask ourselves if, unbeknonst to us, we have such a split personality in our midst.  Mightn’t we look for the signs of a would-be werewolf that can be nipped in the bud?

Yes, I think that the strange case of Dr. Lewis and Mr. Pain fills the bill.  Even his use of two names betokens an incipient schizophrenia.  And we see in Pain’s increasingly malicious fustians of hatred a Mr. Hyde ready to explode like a big noxious vampire moth from the placid cocoon in which he has lain dormant.

Here for example is an article in which the avuncular Dr. Lewis expresses his solidarity with the gay movement and offers the gay community friendly advice on how best to achieve their objectives.  One is reminded of the lenient, affectionate attitude of people like Havelock Ellis, André Gide and Radclyffe Hall.  I’m sure that Dr. Lewis’ article must have been warmly received in San Francisco.  He even admits that he was once considered gay and attended gay parties regularly, but he denies, perhaps disingenuously, that he is gay.

Then Dr. Lewis changed his name to Mr. Pain, and waxed homophobic.  This might be called ‘going back into the closet’.  Perhaps he thinks that by spattering abusive remarks on homosexuality he can undo the loss of prestige and self-esteem that he suffered when he was such an enthusiastic champion of  gay rights.

In an article that he pens under the name of Tom Pain, perhaps to conceal the gay reputation he once had had, he blusters, “This is what the gay agenda is about; it’s not about wanting their ox gored like everyone else. Even the gays who don’t understand these larger issues in play want gay marriage because it would raise their low level of self esteem that results from acting on behavior that 90% of people find repulsive. I’m sorry that they feel so bad about themselves, but it’s not society’s fault. I guarantee that if 10% of society suddenly decided that they just had to eat their own boogers, they would suffer a loss of self-esteem because the other 90% find it repulsive. Does that mean that the 90% should be forced to acknowledge booger-eaters in public? Should restaurant owners be forced to allow a booger-eater to sit next to his other patrons? Why must society be forced to acknowledge gays? The preferred destination of one’s genitals is simply not a characteristic that merits distinction by society. Should schools start teaching children about the many great achievements made throughout history by people who ate  boogers?...My position is very simple – the government should not allow discrimination against anyone for being gay, but it should also not mandate preferential treatment be given to anyone for being gay. Those same laws should extend to booger-eaters, bad dressers, obese and ugly people, freaks, filthy people, or any of the other demographics that unfortunately are no admired by most of society.”

Here he lumps gays with booger-eaters, bad dressers, fat people, ugly people, freaks and filthy people.  What an about face!  What happened to Dr. Lewis, the friend of the gay crowd?

This man bears watching.  He might come out of the closet with an axe one day.  If he feels hetero that day, watch out if you’re gay!  If he feels homo that day, watch out if you’re straight!

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