And to play devil's advocate: I think it was Freud who traced his love of books back to a childhood anecdote where his father had this big, shiny, colorful book

And to play devil's advocate: I think it was Freud who traced his love of books back to a childhood anecdote where his father had this big, shiny, colorful book he despised, so he brought it to young Sigmund and they tore it to pieces together.