There are events in early life that crystalise desire, if not its specific forms then the general framework in which it will arise. One of these might be the first encounters with books. For some the book, perhaps a encyclopedia, or a bible, might suggest a condensation and concentration of the whole world into a an object that can be held in your hands, and the power of knowledge that it connotes. For others it might instead be the fantasy of entering into a picture or into a story, wanting to be like a character in a book. The naïve desire might be soon abandoned, but as a structuring of desire it might present a perfectly indelible and unattainable ideal. This is a phenomenon of a certain kind of cultural development, it arises at a certain point and ends too, at a different point.