As many of these innovations are widely acknowledged to represent reliable material cultural proxies for symbolic thinking, the authorship—Neandertal, or modern human—of the transitional technocomplexes in which they are observed for the first time in Europe has been the matter of much controversy ([1 ] and references therein).

I see it this way: When I was a kid I was bookish, extremely literate for my age, the usual cliched embryonic SF reader. Of course, the oiks didn't want to know about me, and those that did only wanted to beat me up. So I avoided the thickos and sought my own kind. When I think of kids when I was a kid, I'm thinking of those relatively smart librovores that I mixed with.

I was manually adding “//” for each line I wanted to remove, which was annoying. It turns out that you can use Edit > Commentize to add “//” to the start of all selected lines. The keyboard shortcut in IP7 is Cmd-/. You can reverse the process with Edit > Decommentize or Cmd-.

So just in case you might be curious, in case you might want to know, I shall try to put down whatever I remember of my childhood and of my life in general... my remembrances of childhood, adulthood, and oldhood.