January 6, 2004

• “Stars are beautiful, but they must never take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever . . . They are not really friendly to Peter, who has a mischievious way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side tonight, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way. So as soon as the door or 27 closed on Mr. and Mrs. Darling there was a commontion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: ‘Now Peter!’” (J.M. Barrie, 27).

  “‘Don’t go Peter,’ she entreated . . . so there can be no denying that it was she who first tempted him” (Barrie, 40).

  “I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back and then away we go” (Barrie, 41).

  “No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest” (Barrie, 115).

  “[T]here is a saying in Neverland that, everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible” (Barrie, 139).

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