Friday, July 18, 2008

Of superheroes and relativity

Jamie, to put it mildly, is into superheroes of all varieties. Spiderman is still the big one but Batman has an important role to play and Transformers and Ninja Turtles, too. There is quite a culture of playing superheroes on the playground of course, where he learned all of this. Yesterday I picked him up and he had been playing with his friend Austin, who is a little younger.

Jamie informed me that at school he was Batman and Austin was Robin, "Because I am big and Austin is small. But at home, Daddy is Batman and Jamie is Robin because Daddy is big and I am small." Connor, a natural fit for Robin, it would seem, is not quite eligible for participation.

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