Instead of being the lost soul of a loner drifting aimlessly having a peripatetic wind, I'm now preferring something with more bite to it. As experience is just nature cruel way of giving the exams first followed by their lessons; you eventually reach a point where silence can no longer be contained no matter the cost.
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Friday, November 18, 2016
JUVENILIA - Friday, November 18, 2016
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Definitions for juvenilia
works, especially writings, produced in one's youth: His juvenilia were more successful than his mature writings.
literary or artistic productions suitable or designed for the young: publishers of juvenilia.
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Citations for juvenilia
He showed us a majestic cupboard. “When I'm dead, remember this contains all myjuvenilia, the poems I wrote when I was sixteen, the sketches for sagas in six volumes made at eighteen, and so on …”Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, translated by William Weaver, 1989
Young diarists are often thusly spirited; and juvenilia is worth keeping and consulting for its honesty and its exuberance as much as for its historical usefulness.Ian Crouch, "E. B. White on His Eighteenth Birthday," The New Yorker, July 11, 2011
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