But reading this fanciful metaphor as the entire Guide - and the Last One to be proffered - is silly. I expect its half-live might be measured in months, but that still beats Utter Confusion + hearsay from contemporaries {already Living That}. The brighter the kid, the shorter time is it 'sufficient'

Myths I went-by at 10 were quite different from at 10.5, 11.5 - and bloody Way Different from 13+ I think (now) that there IS no Universally Good=Useful myth; not for anyone - that silly idea just spawns How-To books 'fitted for all', but actually for None.
[a Secret, once out - that would doom the self-Help section of a bookstore]

If Mike is pretty ept.. he'll construct the successor - one which introduces the Large Option: of thinking with some fledgling Discrimination; practising thus - for a life within a currently screwy milieu, unlikely to reform any time soon.

NOBODY knows how to do that very well. (ie Introduce that concept in a personalized-Useful way.)


Ashton,


Hmmm.. maybe it takes a village..
[unless the village is high on Theocracy-for-$$, say]
Make a good book title, though..