#j.m.barrie

[cindy-lou]

Peter Pan (1953) Dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske And Wilfred Jackson

[the-one-who-reads-to-escape]

“to die will be an awfully big adventure”

-J.M.Barrie

[morgan--reads]

Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie

Summary: Peter Pan, a mysterious boy who never grows up takes Wendy Darling and her two brothers away with him to Neverland, an island full of adventures and dangers. 

Quote: “Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be the same boy. 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.”

My rating: 4.0/5.0  Goodreads: 4.08/5.0

Review: This is so much wilder and weirder than I had expected. The book has a sly, almost nihilistic sense of humor and the whimsy, while present in significant amounts, always has a darker edge. The mermaids, Tinkerbell, and the pirates are real menaces and there’s plenty of violence, made almost more horrible by the light tone with which it’s described. There’s also some wicked satire about the ridiculous banalities of domestic life. I’m not fully convinced of the appropriateness, or even the appeal, of this book for children, but for an adult, it offered a surprising, funny, and surreal story.

[urlasage]

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odd things happen to all of us

                                                  merkwürdige dinge passieren uns allen

on our way

                                                  auf unserem weg

through life

                                                  durchs leben

without our noticing

for a time

that they have happened

                                                   ohne dass wir eine Zeitlang überhaupt merken

                                                   dass sie passiert sind

thus                                    

to take an instance

                                                   zum Beispiel

we suddenly discover

                                                   entdecken wir plötzlich

that we have been deaf

in one ear

                                                    dass wir auf einem Ohr taub sind

for we don’t know how long

                                                    seit wer weiss wie lange

but, say

half an hour

                                                     aber mindestens, sagen wir, seit

                                                     einer halben Stunde

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[callmemisscapulet]

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

[iwt-v]

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

-J.M. Barrie

[wobblywibbly]

Unending List of Favorite Characters - C is for Captain James Hook

“His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a raconteur of repute. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanor, showed him one of a different cast from his crew.”

[septembergold]