Childhood thrills and misses

[belamyi]

During the pandemic they finally [legally] uploaded a... "book"... that I had borrowed from a classmate over thirty years before: I was so obsessed with the architectural intricacy of the plan of the castle that some idiots had commented that I was hoping to keep it forever, counting on the classmate having forgotten he had lent it.

https://es.scribd.com/document/474632599/PLANEA-TU-FUGA-Frome-1-El-castillo-de-Frome

So I was delighted to find it so easily accessible (I couldn't find it on second-hand bookshops online or anywhere, even in the original Simple English)...

It's not that the little piece of crap was a landmark in my life accomplishment checks but, still, I found it somewhat thrilling... actually, the thrill is always more about reconnecting, retrieval... that is, about the archival quality of that feeling and interest, in short, about my daily life

Actually, during the past decade of Re-Read bookshops in BCN and Spain, I was witness to many people dodderingly "reconnecting" exthusiastically with their childhood and its bookish possessions...

I suppose something similar happens continuously all over the world with furniture trash or any sort of sellable

to many people... people like you?

 

[Peloso]

 

[rareboy]

I still have so many of my childhood toys and books.

Except a flood destroyed my Kenner erector sets last year...and I miss them.

 

[belamyi]

At the age where it would be more useful to you.

I think I wish I had one of those back in the days when I had to singe Yamasaki's WTC with these shiny plastic "stones"

 

[rareboy]

I would have shit my pants with joy.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Here is the book that haunted my childhood, published in the year 1900.

As a child, I had no idea what these drawings were about, but I couldn't get the images out of my mind.