I would really enjoy writing an essay entitled, “Know Your Heroes—Or, How to be a Canonical Bastard”. I would go through fellows like Rhett and Heathcliff and Dorian Gray and The Prince and compare and contrast how they are all bastards and which behaviors work out best depending on your goals.
It’d be awesome.
I know I’m looking forward to it.
And I would soooo want to read that essay, too.