Earliest Memories of the World Outside (was Forcing Kids To Watch History Made)

[Haggridd <jkusalavagemd@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:


> 
> Mind you, I didn't understand what Watergate *was.*  I thought it 
> sounded quite exciting--I pictured a great seawall with the ocean 
> lashing it--but I asked my mom what it was and she said "a hotel."  
> Yawn.  I do recall thinking that John Chancellor was Nixon.  After 
> all, his was the face I saw every night, and Nixon Nixon Nixon was 
> the name I heard.  I regret to this day that I didn't write to 
> Chancellor telling him this before he died.  He'd probably have 
been 
> amused.
> 
> Amy Z

My earliest memory of the "Real" world of adults was a fleeting 
glimpse  from my dad's car of an "I like Ike" poster during the 
presidential campaign of 1956.  I never connected it to anything at 
the time, but many years later (I was seven at the time) when I 
studied history, the memory of that poster resurfaced and I did 
finally make the connection.

I also recall hearing of someone being a "spitting image" of another.
For the longest time, I had images of an expectorating photograph of 
some kind.  Again, many years later I learned about the "spit and 
image" one had to obtain from one's target-- or any other body part, 
like fingernail parings--that went into the making of a magical 
simulacrum for spellcasting, an example of which is the voodoo doll.

It's amazing the interesting things kids come up with when they try 
to understand things based on partial or eroneous infromation.

Haggridd