Magic Moments

A che età si fanno le prime esperienze, quelle vere che ti segnano per tutta la vita? Sembra che un anno preciso non esista, a giudicare da questa lista di personaggi famosi e dei loro momenti magici, da Hitler a Casanova a Walt Disney. I miei preferiti (in grassetto l’età della persona):

6: Alfred Hitchcock’s father sends him down to the police station with a note instructing the officer in charge to lock him in a cell for five minutes, circa 1905.

31: Charles Schulz gives Linus a security blanket, 1954.

34: Sigmund Freud is given a couch by a grateful patient, circa 1890.

35: In the midst of the Depression, Walt Disney spends a million and a half dollars to make a feature-length cartoon about a young woman living with seven men, 1937.

39: Ian Fleming vacations in Jamaica with his mistress, 1948. While there he purchases a copy of Birds of the West Indies, by the ornithologist James Bond.

72: On his birthday, Albert Einstein has his picture taken while he sticks his tongue out, 1951.

98: Rin Tin Tin dies at his home in Los Angeles, 1932. In human years he was 14.

[The Atlantic]