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Changing the metaphor, he adds: "And your behavior, your
words are all aped."
And later: "Introspection is bad. You have nothing to look into."
And still later: "Begin with the body. It's the only tool you have. "
Meanwhile, having finished his afternoon stint at the clinic, Jekyll
is down to sweat pants and shower clogs and is working out in a
private gym on Lexington Avenue. From the other side of the room,
the Nicaraguan coach compliments him on his skill with the punching
bag. With each punch that he throws, Jekyll feels the blood circulating
more happily in his body. He thinks of Hyde, who was rarely able to
overwhelm his victims by sheer physical force, but usually had to use
some nasty weapon; and even then, needed first to weaken them with
the shock of his tense, misbegotten face, his stooped, undernourished
figure, his outlandish, neo-diabolical garb. He had always expected
Hyde to fill out, to become bigger, taller-if not simply with passing
time, then as the result 'of the gymnastics ("movements," Utterson calls
them) that Hyde did when he was briefly in residence at the Institute.
Spiritual gymnastics is not enough, Jekyll concludes, hardly for the
first time, throwing a last vicious right hook at the punching bag.
Utterson, his broad face turning brick pink from lin hour's non-stop
talking in the Study House, ducks slightly
to
the left, rubs his shiny
hard scalp, then sways with laughter. He, in his turn, concludes that
he is getting careless. And that from now on he'd better give more
thought to Jekyll.
As Hyde takes Jekyll for granted, the indifference of the ugly
to
the genteel, Jekyll envies Hyde, the envy of the almost middle-aged
for the young. In spite of his confident responsive body and a driv–
ing schedule of work, Jekyll regards himself as low in vitality ("fifty
watts," Utterson once jeered behind his back); no matter how exem–
plarya physician he becomes, he accuses himselfof achronic deficit of
initiative. Hyde agrees. Utterson's Institute for Deprogramming Po–
tential Human Beings attracts far too many people of this type.
Hyde, of course, so far as he could be counted as having passed
through Utterson's hands, would be an exception. Despite his frail
build and chronic colds, Hyde is someone who always finds his second
wind. He has always been enterprising. When he first came to Jekyll's
attention, referred to the clinic for a skin disease by a psychiatrist at
