My very earliest memory has no words. Just scenes. Sounds. Sensations. I see a window out to the bright blue world, most of which I cannot see from the vantage of my crib. The sill is above me, so the window is like a rigid eye pointed up at the sky, while the fun and action are down below. Perhaps that is why I escaped with an instinctive and irrepressible urge, like a born inmate I’m told.