In reply to "HMS Victor Victorian" who wrote the following:
> Prologue
> In Which We Meet Our Protagonist
>
> Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and
> go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering
> on a mountain I will show you." Genesis 22:2
>
>
>
> For a seven year old boy, Nigel Macmillan could be astute beyond his
> years about some things, yet unbelievably ignorant about many other
> things, common sense things that most little boys his age had
> straightened out by the time they were toddling about.
>
> In this, his most serious deficit was his unwavering faith in the
> misunderstanding of some kind. As a result, he was accepting and
> trusting to a fault.
>
> Nigel would have realised, if he'd studied religious philosophy, his
> matter Protestants and Catholics and Jews and Muslims and pretty much
> be chiseled and flogged into goodness. There was certainly no lack
> of evidence to support that view. Television, radio, the newsreels
> and the movies and the newspapers daily excreted a morass of human
> depravity. Yet against this storm Nigel's simplistic philosophy
> remained impervious. It all rolled off him like water off a duck's
> back.
>
> Nigel's great innocence was partly the fault of his parents, Roger and
> Angela Macmillan. In that, they were typical parents. Grownups
> generally agreed that innocence in children was a good quality.
> Indeed. It defined the very notion of Childhood, and mothers and
> fathers high and low went to great lengths to protect its sanctity.
>
> So Nigel's parents might perhaps be forgiven for sheltering him. They
> might even be pardoned for teaching him (in their own haphazard way)
> Angela and Roger knew that given reality, Nigel might in the end be
> disappointed. It was all very well, yet their boy seemed at times so
> hadn't over done it a bit.
>
> Simply put, Nigel was as innocent and unoffending as a cup of warm
> cocoa.
>
> This is not to say Nigel was ignorant. He knew many things other
> little boys didn't know. He knew that cave men never hunted dinosaurs
> and that toy soldiers were once made of lead and that little boys
> be naked, but nobody thought so because Adam and Eve had broken one of
> God's rules. He even knew about the one thing that, of all things,
> grownups felt was the most destructive of a child's innocence.
>
> Nigel knew about sex.
>
> And he knew about it in a rather detailed way. He knew where this was
> and what that was, and what goes in here and what one does with it
> when one's got it in, and how it feels, and how a baby is made and
> where a baby comes out, and all of that simply through his own
> persistence. If Nigel had been a naked Mehinaku boy of Brazil,
> grownups there wouldn't have been in the least bothered, for Mehinaku
> children knew about such things. But Nigel wasn't a little Mehinaku
> boy. He was little British boy, of old Scottish Catholic stock, and
> grownups would have been horrified to know that such a fine, pale,
> freckled son of Scotland had had his innocence so soon sullied.
>
> In truth, knowing about the sex act hadn't dirtied Nigel's innocence
> in the least. Sex could be scandalously funny, of course. After all,
> he was a seven year old boy. But Nigel hadn't ever had a single
> sordid, shameful or guilty thought about sex. He accepted it in the
> same innocent way he did about having ice cream topped with
> butterscotch, while watching the tellie with Mummy and Daddy after
> supper.
>
> But that, alas, would change.
>
> HMSVV 2011
Why don't you put the .jpg version on here like you do in the other group where
you have the same story?
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