We All Have Our Own Tonypandy

"More Tonypandy, he thought. " (Pg. 132) How many of us say this on a daily basis? Probably not many, but we do say "what is the point of this?", "why do I need to know this?" Or even "what was the purpose of saying that?" Overall in The Daughter of Time, Tonypandy is present.  My take on Tonypandy is that it's basically unneeded information, statements or maybe even people that enter our lives.  This is present in today's society and was clearly present in the past.  Although many of the resources Grant pulls from may be reliable such as the portrait he examines and the school history book, who's to say there isn't some Tonypandy hidden in there? We discussed last class how the portrait of Richard III can be viewed from many different point such of view, so there's really no way to know the true image of Richard III.  On a larger scale, the discussions he has with people such as his surgon and a few of his friends about Richard III's portrait should not be taken into consideration for facts.  That hearsay goes hand in hand with Tonypandy and basically has no business in his investigation.  There are many situations like this in our present day, some on a smaller scale such as rumors in a high school, and some on a larger scale like unnecessary tweets posted by our president.  All in all society has changed on a large scale through the years, but some parts will never be unchanged.