Ghyll:Toilet training
Dib. --Doctor Phineas Crank 01:05, 26 Feb 2005 (EST)
There are few things of more significance in a young Ghyllian's development than their toilet training. Indeed, it has been suggested that the only thing more significant is the question one is given by his or her Hive-Lord. The famous developmental psychoalchemist, Dr. B. J. Spook, spent quite a bit of his early professional career researching the effects that toilet training variation and mishap had on later mental development. His findings were quite interesting. According to Dr. Spook, if a developing whelp's toilet training is started too young, the little blighter will no doubt become an over-achiever. If, on the other hand, the wee savage is allowed to wallow in its own excrement too long, it quite likely will end up becoming something beastly, like an editor. Dr. Spook's research into this aspect of Ghyllian development has generated quite a bit of interest in recent years.
Indeed, it is this popular psychoalchemical theory that gave rise to such wild speculations about the famous inventor Harv Gretborn's toilet training. Dr. Spook speculated that Gretborn's particular genius is the result of being allow to evacuate freely in the Qestarius River, but at an early age. The good doctor feels that the peculiar combonation of an early start and the unnatural liberation of not wearing diapers resulted in an unrivaled creative mind. Of course, back then no one kept the detailed records of juvenile bowel movements that we do now, so it is all speculation.
