When I was growing up, I read comics where little boys had adventures with armies of miniature robot soldiers, tanks and aircraft controlled by a wrist radio device. And I had my own 1960’s ‘internet’ thanks to a collection of weekly Look and Learn magazines that decanted 20th centuries current affairs, technology and innovation into colourful graphical stories and illustrations.
Reading Astounding Stories and similar set the scene for what I would eventually manifest and bring into being in my own life and, in doing so, (just like the old man in the pink punt), the memory I recall from those halcyon days is of yet another ‘note to self’ with regards to self perception where I would bring the mysterious scientists and inventors off the page and transform them into my very own life where, as daydream transforms to real life 30 years later, I become the protaganist from the Astounding Story comics, a mysterious internationally famous inventor with his own black suitcase and black suit living the life of that mysterious silhouette I’d first seen in the late 50’s or early 60’s in those magazines.
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