Is there a way to recapture that enthusiasm? To channel our younger selves, and remember our giddy surprise?
Do you remember your first time? Not sex; that would be too personal a question to ask. But life offers plenty of other “firsts”. Depending on your age: your first proper washing machine. Or your first computer. Or your first smartphone, operating via a button on the car’s steering wheel.
Elsewhere, he writes of his surprise upon seeing a telephone in action. Or his interest in spotting a motor car. Or there’s the high emotion of seeing an aeroplane for the first time: “I had been ready to weep from the moment when I recognised that the sound was coming from above my head … and at the thought that what I was about to see for the first time was an aeroplane.”Of course, sometimes life’s firsts are not so momentous.
Or there are Crepes Suzette, experienced for the first time flamed at the table. Oh, my God, the astonishment. The drama of the moment, followed by the taste of the soft crepes, the sweet Cointreau and the sharp orange.. At some point the whole cast was on a mechanised travelator, moving from stage left to stage right without moving their bodies.What? How have they done that? It was by far the most amazing thing I’d ever seen – in a theatre or maybe anywhere.
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