Tag Archives: Juvenilia

Sympathy for the Devil?

10th
Mar. × ’13

A question that Christian children sometimes (and Christian adults too seldom) ask is whether, if they should pray for their enemies, that means that they should pray for Satan – i.e., pray for Satan’s eventual reformation and redemption. The traditional answer is that angels’ mode of existence, between time and eternity, is such that their [...]

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Moles Out of Holes, Smiths on the Wing; or, an Expected Un-Party

4th
Jul. × ’12

Still more juvenilia: “Bill ‘Coon’ and the Giant Mole” (around age 11), “Phooey to Handwriting!” (age 12), and less juvenilely, “The Invisible Net” (some time in my late 20s). The second Tolkien reference in my post’s title is obvious; can you identify the first?

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Double Dribble

4th
Jul. × ’12

More juvenilia: two continuations of other people’s stories, both involving basketball – “The Loose Ball Foul” (age 10) and “One Day In the Life of Mike Teavee” (around age 11).

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Silly Symphonies

4th
Jul. × ’12

Still more juvenilia: “An Epic Poem” (age 11) and “Vocabulary Stories” (ages 10-12). The first one has a sort of Fourth-of-July theme.

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Transatlantic Tedium

4th
Jul. × ’12

More juvenilia (ages 11-12): “Tiri of Portugal” (a boring story about a Portuguese boy traveling to America on his own) and “Flight to Borango” (a potentially interesting but unfinished story about an American boy traveling to Kenya on his own).

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Two More Visions of the Future

26th
Jun. × ’12

More juvenilia: “One Flew Through the Electrostatic Converter” and “The Life and Times of Captain Cosmos” (both age 13).

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