I always figured that it was more than just being the high school geek that had scarred him. Things went wrong somewhere, and he found comfort in following a rigid set of rules, and trying to force others to, as well. That never goes well.
The flip side: maybe he was the imaginative math teacher, good at getting his students to think, friendly with them, until something happened; maybe he had a party at his house, someone got into trouble for drinking... ;-)
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Date: 2007-03-10 12:34 am (UTC)The flip side: maybe he was the imaginative math teacher, good at getting his students to think, friendly with them, until something happened; maybe he had a party at his house, someone got into trouble for drinking... ;-)
Also, I can't BELIEVE I typo-ed "quiet." Grrrrr.