Phillip Solar, in trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown, absorbs so much radiation that he becomes able to manipulate his body into nuclear energy. I spent a lot of time in the comic book section, where I first discovered Solar, Man of the Atom. To explore, to sleep, and of course to read – a gateway to adventure. But more than any one specific purpose, that library was a place to be. Whenever I had a bit of time to myself, in class, at home, or in the library, I would try to recover the sleep taken from me until either my siblings or parents woke me when it was time to go. To make matters worse, my parents, as teachers, had to get to school before their students, so they dropped us off much earlier than everyone else. Because there were six of us kids, we had to wake up very early in order to all shower, eat, and then get to school on time. Tiredness characterized so much of those days for me. Before we had a computer at home, we used the neighborhood library to type and print papers and generally explore the digital world.
It was close enough for us to walk to and my parents would often drop me and my siblings off there to do homework, read, and to grant them some free time. Like many poor families, mine spent a lot of time in the local neighborhood library.
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