Sunday, October 01, 2006
Nostalgia
I'm rereading The Hobbit (and will probably reread The Lord of the Rings). I hadn't done so in a long time, but I've noticed recently a desire to recapture certain positive aspects of my childhood, and those books are one of them. Another thing I've done recently is thought about buying old GI Joe toys because, damn, I used to have a lot of fun with those. I haven't done so because (A) the old toys are pretty expensive now, even out of the box, which is how I'd want them, and (B) what the hell am I going to do with a bunch of GI Joe toys anyway?
Other things about my childhood I'd like to recapture but probably can't effectively do at this point:
Other things about my childhood I'd like to recapture but probably can't effectively do at this point:
- Playing touch football with friends.
- Certain computer and video games. Quite a few, actually.
- Staying up all night inventing idiotic games like "nail the person in the sleeping bag with slingshotted stuff."
- Being a big fish in a small pond.
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If you wanted to elucidate on which certain old school video games, I might be able to give you a website or two, having gone through something like this a year or so ago.
--Stuart
--Stuart
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: October 02, 2006 6:55 PM
: October 02, 2006 6:55 PM
When I was about 14 (ca. 1968-69), several of my close friends were heavily into the Lord of the Rings books. I didn't ever get around to reading them myself (I mostly read comic books back then), though I got into so much conversation about them with my friends that I eventually felt as though I had somewhat read them or at least experienced them.
A few years ago after my dad died, I got the urge to actually read the Lord of the Rings books, and I spent the spring and summer with them. And it all came back, the amazing lightness and freedom, the feeling that magic and mythology lay beyond every slight rise in the ground, in every grove of trees and every hazy evening light.
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A few years ago after my dad died, I got the urge to actually read the Lord of the Rings books, and I spent the spring and summer with them. And it all came back, the amazing lightness and freedom, the feeling that magic and mythology lay beyond every slight rise in the ground, in every grove of trees and every hazy evening light.
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