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It's the adventures of Tintin on the moon, that REALLY resonated to me as a young Dutch boy. To imagine that these stories were created before the first ACTUAL moon landing. So much of it is pretty accurate and it inspired me later as a teenager to even create a moon surface from chicken wire, papier-mâché and cement (!) to have a surface for my Tintin figurines to play on. I WISHED I had photos of that! But those days we didn't have camera phones and you didn't waste you film on anything but events, birthdays or family back then.
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These rocket pages were very inspiring growing up. |
Now, it is easy to just snap a few photos of my treasured book, featuring my favourite rocket man Tintin and add it instantly a blog online potentially for the whole world to see. Still to this day my complete Tintin album collection resides proudly as inspiration on my office book shelf and a special Tintin themed corner is on permanent display in the living room. .
Sure, they have some damage, but I love seeing well-loved books and comics. Nothing is sadder to me than an ancient, pristine, book because no one has truly loved it.
ReplyDeleteTrue - It remains a well loved book that hopefully gets cherished through more generations to come.
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