Christopher WunderLee - Moore's Mythopoeia

He owned four houses on three continents, an armada of sports cars, a helicopter, a private jet, one championship style sailing vessel, a speedboat, a houseboat, a fishing trawler, and two yachts. He had fashionable apartments in Paris, New York, Beijing, Johannesburg, Sydney, and Rio. He skied in the winter, sailed in the summer, hunted in the fall, and vacationed in the spring. He was always well over his purchasing goals, had a line of credit that extended into the millions, never went in debt too far, and kept his own personal accountant, lawyer, doctor, and pharmacist. Graham was always invited to the right parties, always present at major events, knew the most important people, lunched with senators, royalty, and barons of industry.

He came from a long line of great men. Graham’s great-grandfather had invented the interpolar breeding apparatus and had single-handedly saved the whales from extinction. His grandfather had curtailed the family fortune made from the interpolar breeding apparatus and began a not-so-for-profit world wildlife heritage organization that had ensured the continued existence of terrestrial animals from the lion to the dung beetle. The Greene name was known, well known. Graham’s father had taken over for his father when the elder Greene was in his sixties and increased the protection of GreeneNet, as the organization was called, to include amphibians, reptiles and crustacean. Before Graham was a teenager, the word extinction had disappeared from dictionaries and encyclopedias. The world was populated with every kind of animal that naturally occurred in its environment.

The Greene’s were elected to public office, put in charge of large operations, offered posts in government departments and given first class citizenship. They were known for their consumerism, their piety, and their unending drive for success. Only the Greene’s could save the North American Rock Turtle and they had. Only the Greene’s could save the South African Jackass Penguin and they had. Only the Greene’s could develop over-breeding policies that were humane, as well as comprehensive. Greene’s ran all the major parks in all the world’s regions. Graham’s uncle ran Etosha, Kruger, Chobe, and Lesotho. Graham’s cousin ran Corbett, Sawai Modhpur, and Kindhar. His brother-in-law ran Everglade, Olympia, Appalachia, and Colorado. Another one of his cousins ran Nullarbor, Tanami, Barrier Reef, and MacDonnell. Graham, himself, had interned at his great-uncle, Tobias’ Maud Land Reserve for two summers, overseeing the migration of the Antarctic Spiked Dolphin.

Graham had come into this world destined for leadership, destined to be important. He had scored first in all his courses throughout first and secondary school and was elected to the Nantucket School for Gifted Youngsters four years before normal acceptance. He was twelve when he won his first Yager Award, thirteen when he was first recognized by the government for his consumer protocol influence achievements in his community, and seventeen when he left home to begin college in Baghdad. Graham impressed everyone he met (in an almost bodhisattvian manner), he could recite Shakespeare from memory, he could define the half-life of any element on the periodic table, he could explain to a two-year-old why the sun did not stop burning. When he was twenty-one, his first novel, The Superb and Laughing Adventures of Baron van Klepto , received the Indigo World First Book Award from the Foundation for Cultural Unification and sold over twenty-million copies within the first year of its publication. Graham was also an expert athlete, holding world records in the fifty-meter dash, the aquatic marathon, and distance jumping, two of which still stand today. He played for the Brasilia Wild Cats Professional Netball team for eight seasons and saw them to three world championships. This followed with his starring roles in over twelve major motion pictures, most notably and the one he won the Tommy for, Fatso Got a Melon , grossed over six hundred million numbers. With just the right timing, Graham’s first album coincided with his last picture, Darwin’s Sense of Humor , a not publicly well-received movie, but critically the most important of his career, and he gracefully transitioned from actor to musician, producing four top-10 albums in just two years.

But, nothing could prepare Graham or his family, for the shocking success of his appearance on the Virtuascape game show, Rob Them Blind , in which Graham sat on as the champion for over seven seasons, until the producers graciously asked him to step down. While he was champion (continuing his extremely Randian progress), Graham finished his educational prerequisites and immediately accepted a position with a major automobile manufacturer, as both their spokesperson for three years and their District Manager of Safety and Comfortable Upholstery. Even after his screen fame waned, Graham managed to appear in magazines, newspapers and journals for climbing all seven of the world’s highest peaks in one year, canoeing across the Atlantic Ocean in just under forty-three days, and for saving a child who was choking on a piece of tenderloin in a fashionable restaurant. Graham was, by all accounts, the perfect, A-lister. He was the Gentlemen’s Club’s man of the year four times in ten years, he was Personality Magazine ’s most eligible bachelor twice and number five, eleven, and twenty-six of their 100 Most Successful Men special double issue.

Graham had dated some of the most famous women in the world, actresses, princesses, the daughter’s of chancellors, senators, and lords, singers, magicians, and politicians. His face was seen almost weekly in Look Magazine, What’s Up, Mood, Urban Living , and Space . He penned a monthly column for the Whitaker Daily Telegram that was carried by over six hundred newspapers and one hundred and fifty periodicals. He regularly had essays and articles published in the Scientific Centurion, Odyssey , and World Culture . He made guest appearances on talk shows, was considered an expert on the public’s tastes, an authority on cultural shift, and taught a course at a nearby university on Love and the Media, an elective that focused on the correlation of consumerism and healthy relationships.

This fortune was true of all of Graham’s family (in the most Bernoullian of senses); his brothers and sisters were just the same as him, perfect. Barry, the youngest, had just graduated from Tokyo General School of Medicine and had received a post at Mount Sinai as the Director of Cardiac Mechanics. Barry had taken over for Graham after only one season of Greene absence as the reigning champion of Rob Them Blind and held the crown for three years. Barry was on all the same lists as Graham, and his face often appeared on the cover of teen magazines with flirtatious headlines: “Youngest Greene Is A Dashing Prince Looking for A Princess”, “Barry Greene Speaks Out on Love, Relationships, and The Perfect Date”, “Who Will Barry Greene Marry? It Could Be You — Page 68 for Details!” Barry was taller and skinnier than his brother, he did not have as much of an athletic physique, but still, he made a name for himself as a professional skeet ball player and a striker on the city’s most famous team. He did not write novels or travel memoirs like Graham, but he had penned an immensely popular home health-care guide called Mommy, my Spleen Hurts: How to Cure Internal Afflictions with Household Items and followed it up with a weekly health column in the magazine POP! that received more letters than any other feature. Barry followed in Graham’s footsteps like a man traversing a minefield. He was yet another perfect man raised from the Greene stock.

Following Barry were one and a half sisters, Margaret and Elisa. They were inspiration for artists. They had a classical, almost Roman appearance. They looked always as though they’d walked out of a Renaissance painting, in their manner, appearance, and dress. Margaret was the oldest, born only a year after Graham and was the only challenge he had throughout school. The first year Graham was old enough to join the trivia team he had won the world championships in Geneva. The following year, when it was held in Juarez, after eight days of matches, only two children were left, Graham and Margaret. The length of the game, of which Graham finally won when Margaret confused Zeno of Ithaca with Zeno of Sparta, caused the international association that sponsored the contest to break it into girl and boy competitions. Graham was the boy champion until he left for secondary school. Margaret was the girl champion for three more years, before her sister, Elisa defeated her in a match that rivaled the earlier Greene match-up and caused further changes in the competition’s rules.