Was 8 in the mid 70s. Captain Kangaroo Second rate Hans Barbara cartoons e.g. Snaglepus Love American Style Some game shows price is right PBS stuff Then Rocky and Bullwinkle Hour

Having learned to read at like four years old greatly expanded available entertainment. Iirc by around fourteen or fifteen I discovered Japanese psychological surrealism in the form of Kobo Abe, while spending days at a country house with bupkis to do except read tons of books and magazines. Which discovery definitely affected my taste for the rest of my life.

During the same summer in the same attic, I found a collection of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a note from the translator and editor: “we would certainly think that this name is made up, except no man names his longfellow ‘Henry’”.