You're so right, Mike. When I was young and read Mary Rennault for the first time, I so wanted to believe that she had taken the hundred or so facts we knew about Alexander the Great and created a real biography out of them. I now know that was impossible, but what a fantasy she made from Hephaestian and Bagoas for a teenager dripping with hormones! Now I know that even the 'facts' she used were mostly from mythology.
Tyler will one day write a memoir that will simultaneously shatter a thousand fantasies and inspire a thousand dreams, but right now he's too busy being the real person that he is. What's wrong with all the hypothetical life stories written about him is that they, too, are based on myths, misreadings, and other people's fantasies. I'm not sure where Ward Cleaver fits in all this, or those flights to Phoenix, but I can tell you that Tyler is motivated, amazingly loyal to his friends, constantly improving himself, and that ninety percent of what you read about him on here is the product of overactive imaginations.
I'm really sorry that those who've taken such a dislike to him, who've insisted on viewing him through the harshest of lenses, or at the least bitten their tongues until they bleed, will never have had the opportunity to get to know him a little better on this site. Even if he was not your 'cup of tea,' heaven knows we thought of him as one of our family, he was a great friend, a charming correspondent, and a credit to David and Broke Straight Boys
And, as always, Mike, you're right, "Tyler is the most interesting of David's models during his era of shooting Broke Straight Boys"
Tyler will one day write a memoir that will simultaneously shatter a thousand fantasies and inspire a thousand dreams, but right now he's too busy being the real person that he is. What's wrong with all the hypothetical life stories written about him is that they, too, are based on myths, misreadings, and other people's fantasies. I'm not sure where Ward Cleaver fits in all this, or those flights to Phoenix, but I can tell you that Tyler is motivated, amazingly loyal to his friends, constantly improving himself, and that ninety percent of what you read about him on here is the product of overactive imaginations.
I'm really sorry that those who've taken such a dislike to him, who've insisted on viewing him through the harshest of lenses, or at the least bitten their tongues until they bleed, will never have had the opportunity to get to know him a little better on this site. Even if he was not your 'cup of tea,' heaven knows we thought of him as one of our family, he was a great friend, a charming correspondent, and a credit to David and Broke Straight Boys
And, as always, Mike, you're right, "Tyler is the most interesting of David's models during his era of shooting Broke Straight Boys"