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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- J. M. Barrie -
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- J. M. Barrie -
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- J. M. Barrie -
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- J. M. Barrie -
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- J. M. Barrie -
No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales #Books #Children #ChildrenAndTeenagers #AaMilne #JmBarrie #LewisCarroll #Culture
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No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales #Books #Children #ChildrenAndTeenagers #AaMilne #JmBarrie #LewisCarroll #Culture
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“Farewell Miss Julie Logan”, by JM Barrie
The tale of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” is one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of Scottish Gothic fiction. Listen to the story online, from Romancing the Gothic
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjQUoqUpy4
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #gothic #Scotland #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststories
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“Farewell Miss Julie Logan”, by JM Barrie
The tale of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” is one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of Scottish Gothic fiction. Listen to the story online, from Romancing the Gothic
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjQUoqUpy4
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #gothic #Scotland #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststories
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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
9/10https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie
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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
9/10https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie
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MARY ROSE
Currently available on BBC Sounds – JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s play about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
8/10
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MARY ROSE
Currently available on BBC Sounds – JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s play about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
8/10
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Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
7/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory
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Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
7/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory
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“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”
—A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson
6/10
https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence
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“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”
—A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson
6/10
https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence
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“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
—Sabrina Orah Mark on lost boys, fairy tales, & raising Black sons in America
5/10
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race
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“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
—Sabrina Orah Mark on lost boys, fairy tales, & raising Black sons in America
5/10
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
2/10
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood
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“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
2/10
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood
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“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937) – born #OTD, 9 May
1/10
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan
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“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937) – born #OTD, 9 May
1/10
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan
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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
3/4https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie
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Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
3/4https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie
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Dovete fare pensieri dolci e meravigliosi.
Saranno loro a sollevarvi in aria.J.M. Barrie
da Peter Pan nei Giardini di Kensington, 1906 … https://cctm.website/james-matthew-barrie-uk/
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Peter Pan kommt aus Schottland
Wusstest du, dass Peter Pan ein Schotte ist? Sein Schöpfer J. M. Barrie verwandelte eigene Kindheitserlebnisse in die berühmte Figur.
https://www.mein-schottland.de/2025/12/03/peter-pan-kommt-aus-schottland/
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Peter Pan kommt aus Schottland
Wusstest du, dass Peter Pan ein Schotte ist? Sein Schöpfer J. M. Barrie verwandelte eigene Kindheitserlebnisse in die berühmte Figur.
https://www.mein-schottland.de/2025/12/03/peter-pan-kommt-aus-schottland/
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Peter Pan kommt aus Schottland
Wusstest du, dass Peter Pan ein Schotte ist? Sein Schöpfer J. M. Barrie verwandelte eigene Kindheitserlebnisse in die berühmte Figur.
https://www.mein-schottland.de/2025/12/03/peter-pan-kommt-aus-schottland/
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Peter Pan kommt aus Schottland
Wusstest du, dass Peter Pan ein Schotte ist? Sein Schöpfer J. M. Barrie verwandelte eigene Kindheitserlebnisse in die berühmte Figur.
https://www.mein-schottland.de/2025/12/03/peter-pan-kommt-aus-schottland/
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Peter Pan’s fantastical life and adventures represents a dream world for many. But revisit [JM] Barrie’s stories, and readers will find that while he filled his works with wonder and magic, the author also relied on and spread racist tropes.
https://time.com/6275187/peter-pan-racist-history-tiger-lily/
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Peter Pan’s fantastical life and adventures represents a dream world for many. But revisit [JM] Barrie’s stories, and readers will find that while he filled his works with wonder and magic, the author also relied on and spread racist tropes.
https://time.com/6275187/peter-pan-racist-history-tiger-lily/
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Wendy & Peter Pan
21 October–22 November, Barbican Theatre, LondonAn exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – & pirates. Ella Hickson’s darkly witty retelling of JM Barrie’s PETER PAN is directed by Jonathan Munby.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/royal-shakespeare-company-wendy-peter-pan
#Scottish #literature #Drama #theatre #PeterPan #adaptation #JMBarrie
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Wendy & Peter Pan
21 October–22 November, Barbican Theatre, LondonAn exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – & pirates. Ella Hickson’s darkly witty retelling of JM Barrie’s PETER PAN is directed by Jonathan Munby.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/royal-shakespeare-company-wendy-peter-pan
#Scottish #literature #Drama #theatre #PeterPan #adaptation #JMBarrie
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Il #film di oggi è #lincomparabilecrichton di #lewisgilbert #unofilm #cinema #unocinema #filmastodon #recensioni #jmbarrie #commedia #satira
https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/lincomparabile-crichton-di-lewis-gilbert/
ascolta gratis tutta la #recensione sul #podcast #lafogliadacanto su #podcloud #castopod #spotify #youtube #amazonmusic
https://youtu.be/jwp1DACXAVs?si=zVrl-5ao1IEtXs8b
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Fyw9j8cR3EVoWSgmi3vaG?si=COWSaijNSHap8OARyfHWTw
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The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Essay (1891-03), “Mr. Kipling’s Stories,” Contemporary Review, Vol. 59Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/78213/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jmbarrie #author #dedication #effort #publicopinion #selfrestraint #writing
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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/77853/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #jmbarrie #age #childhood #generations #goat #memory #recollection
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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/77853/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #jmbarrie #age #childhood #generations #goat #memory #recollection
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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/77853/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #jmbarrie #age #childhood #generations #goat #memory #recollection
