One of A's favorite stories is "The King's Wish." In it, the King of Tam shoots an arrow at a tower bell in order to wake up his people in time for them to put out a fire. The only problem is that A hasn't seen a real bow, so he keeps talking about putting an arrow in a gun and shooting it. Now that I think about it, he hasn't seen a real gun, either.
That hasn't stopped him from building a class of objects called "weapons," which includes guns, arrows, and swords (which, I think he has seen at a Renaissance Faire), and, to my dismay, seem to make a strong impression on him when he sees them in children's entertainment materials.
Oh well, I guess we'll have to break out the toy catapult.
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