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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do you feel like you missed out on anything regrettable because of this, or is this how you would hope your children learned too?
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no joke this book is the most formative media i've ever consumed. i still own my childhood copy and it's completely tattered from how often i would read it
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i also read those science books and there's a few i poured over similarly, but i recently opened up the d'aulaires and it was so obvi the foundation of my aesthetics and understanding of, like, the cruel indifference of powerful people (prometheus myth was, and still is, my fave)
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