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doug**FIXME has been really into taking books off shelves recently, which is a complete pain but is better than jumping off the sofa on to his head, at least. Last day or so he's been particularly focused on a shelf full of philosophy. So this morning I was treated to the adorable sight of my toddler trotting along the corridor clutching a biography of Kierkegaard. Later in the day he carted around Russell's History of Western Philosophy for rather longer than was wise, much as his father did before him on cycling holidays.
So his mum was sat with him and a pile of disarrayed highbrow tomes, and was succeeding in persuading him that helping to return them to their rightful place was a fun thing to do. There was one book lying a way off, so she pointed and said, "Can you bring me Descartes?". And he replied "Brmmm! Brmmm!".
So his mum was sat with him and a pile of disarrayed highbrow tomes, and was succeeding in persuading him that helping to return them to their rightful place was a fun thing to do. There was one book lying a way off, so she pointed and said, "Can you bring me Descartes?". And he replied "Brmmm! Brmmm!".
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Date: 2007-12-14 10:47 pm (UTC)*dies of cute*
Very Cute
Date: 2007-12-15 07:00 am (UTC)L1 favoured large black encyclopedic volumes, whilst L5 prefers Greek mythology and my mother's old cassock-ripping paperbacks.
She is also fond of my parents' old Reader's Digest pretentiously bound classics, which look particularly incongruous to be carrying around especially naked.
L1 used to see shelf emptying as task to be acomplished - he wasn't interested in the books themselves and would just walk away once they were all on the floor. I can't keep up with his book consumption now though!
Re Kierkegaard and youngsters
Date: 2007-12-15 04:08 pm (UTC)Me: "But is it real Danish?" (it's spelled 'vej' today)
Mum: "No, it's sort of old Danish. What IS that book you're carrying?"
Me: "Stadier på livets V-E-I" (Stages on the Road of Life)
After that they moved the philosophy books up a few shelves :P
Re: Re Kierkegaard and youngsters
Date: 2007-12-18 09:01 pm (UTC)(I think it's more commonly translated as Stages on Life's Way in English, but that could just be my limited reading.)
Re: Re Kierkegaard and youngsters
Date: 2007-12-18 09:22 pm (UTC)