Two by Four

Stevenson Under the Palm Trees depicts an epistemological landscape that shocks the near-dead optic nerve by unfurling itself like a scroll to be read for "the colours, the shapes, the patterns and sequences" awaiting to be translated into words by the compulsive author. Written in the distinctive style of Stevenson, this novella seduces the reader into a surreal meta-fiction offering a mystic portrayal that gestures to the social responsibility of the artist, and the intimate inter-connectivity of creation and destruction.