Dad, Who's Charles Fort?

[jeregenest]

The boy is reading Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist and he asks

"Dad, who's Charles Fort?"

So I explain that Charles Fort was a scholar who collected the unusual and the unexplained and believed the world was a stranger place than science allowed.

And the boy says "He wrote a book called Lo!, do we have that?"

And then he was curled up reading Fort until his grammy showed up.

I definitely have to read this kid's mystery.

Comments

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you just happened to have it accessible. Dude, you know what Fort would have said about that.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Lol, he really is your kid. Not that there was ever any doubt, but still. :)

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on doing an excellent job of raising a new generation of geek. Well done indeed!

[foxtown.livejournal.com]

/smile