So I had almost no experience of movies as a child; but I was an expert on The Art of Walt Disney. It was the biggest book I owned, a birthday present. I studied it intensely, absorbing the history of American animation without ever seeing Mickey Mouse in motion. I read about Disney's childhood in Kansas City, but I don't remember it; I only remember the pictures:

the pictures

they were vivid and strange, and often they reminded me of things I knew.

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