A classic childhood moment
We were talking about visual perspective. Okay, it wasn’t that simple. I was putting my partners to bed, and one of them (Otter) said “time to put the hood over the cage,” and I said, “Time to put the hood over the sun?”
“Time to put the planet over the sun. In that sort of ‘I squishle your head’ way.” She mimed with finger and thumb. Both I and Heron immediately recognized what she was saying and laughed.
I had a flashback, then, to being six years of age, and standing at the top of a climbing structure on my elementary-school playground, watching the people in the distance and measuring them with my fingers. It was an imagination trip where I had a sort of 3-D camera device that took little action figures of people. “A power trip,” I concluded, thinking about it. “I hadn’t thought of it that way until now. It was just — I collect all the tiny people.”
Heron said, “Brainiac did that, too.”
I thought about it. “So did the Master.”
Anyone know where I can get lessons in cackling and pseudoscience, on the cheap?