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. . . Standing directly in front of him (if you can use the word “standing” for anyone suspended in mid-air) was another boy just about his age, whose feet were easily three feet off the ground. . . .
“I’m Alec Bings; I see through things. I can see whatever is inside, behind, around, covered by, or subsequent to anything else. In fact, the only thing I can’t see is whatever happens to be right in front of my nose.”—The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
I haven’t mastered X-ray vision or levitation. But I do enjoy looking at things from every possible angle to the point that, sometimes, I do miss the forest for the trees. While my mind has a tendency to drift far away from my body—or from the subject at hand, for that matter—I also have a propensity for finding four-leaf clovers where others simply see a weedy lawn.
Almost everything interests me, but I have a particular passion for games. That passion tends toward the geekier end of the spectrum (roleplaying games, video games), but I’ll settle for a game of Chutes and Ladders if it’s all I can get!
I’m going by the name Alec Bings, the weird kid who grows down in The Phantom Tollbooth
Castle in the Air is a place for me to collect thoughts on the games I love, or on anything else, for that matter. My head is in the clouds, so I might as well chatter about the palaces of giants I see there!
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
—Walden, Henry David Thoreau