![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() T.S's mother, Dr Clare, is, so he says, "a misguided coleopterist" who has spent her entire adult life studying and classifying beetles. is the cause, he knows he can mollify her with 500 grams of chewy tape. she will plug in her earphones and/or retreat to her room with her music. regards her as "the most together member of the family." She is smart, sassy, and, when the family exasperates her, is inclined to a behaviour which T.S. He can recite the latitude and longitude of his address to the nearest second, but he is not so certain about the thoughts and feelings of his family. (the initials stand for "Tecumseh Sparrow," and how he came by them is a story in itself) lives with his family on a ranch in Montana. ![]() T.S., however, is still just a child and his Selected Works are a wonderful grab-bag collection of his notes, drawings, maps and stories, as well as a vivid, funny and sometimes terrifying tale of how he came to be at the Smithsonian that night and the adventures he had getting there. the patterns are already there and I see the map in my head and then just draw it." This is a simplified version of what he tells the scientists at the Smithsonian, but they are cleverer than a CNN man trying to entertain an audience. "I think." he tells a CNN interviewer, "we are born with a map of the entire world in our heads. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius maker of maps, plans and illustrations. ![]()
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