He hoped I would avoid the downward spiral into thick-rouged drag-queendom he had seen take the lives of several other homosexuals.

These drugs work unlike any medicine ever created.

A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder, commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…].

I think this is what you seek to avoid in mytharcs - a plot that drowns out the character-based drama and morality plays that are still Gene's finest legacy.