thinking back to a conversation with about childhood magical beliefs which i don't remember having any of. like i had a deep "science is real" belief and i had it really early. think it was the result of reading science books that had a huge impact
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the ultimate visual dictionary of science had a big impact. the two stephen hawking books were great. and i had a big black glossy book on astronomy i won't be able to track down because it was called "astronomy" or some shit. all these books sunk in real deep i think
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like i situated myself conceptually in a universe running on physics made of atoms really early. i was like yep i live on a lil mudball i'm orbiting a big ol' fire called the sun and then there's other planets and comets and galaxies and that's the universe right there
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i was exactly the right age to get really into harry potter but i never, for one second, believed that i was really going to get a hogwarts letter, and i think for awhile i treated stories about other ppl believing this as like... playful jokes??? but maybe they were serious???
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these science books i read as a kid were seriously really impressive lemme tell you. they weighed a lot and they were gorgeous. i read them over and over and over and over and over. also the d'aulaires book of greek myths was pretty good too
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