Sweet Dreams
"I don't know whether you have ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offins, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also the first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on; and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Micheal, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Micheal in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Micheal had friends at night, Wendy had a pet worlf forsaken by it's parents; but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other's nose, and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more."
***Sir James M. Barrie and his Peter Pan***
3 comments:
put up a mu-fu link to sean's blog. and call me!!!!!!!!!! i'm getting married!
kiersten, you've got to be kidding!
beautiful, beautiful words, Sharon.
I was wondering if you'd give Sean the address of your blog. Hehe, maybe some editing before he gets access, or no?? :)
Thanks for the uplift Sharon. I mean liftup. Hm. But I needed Barrie and Peter Pan and Neverland and especially to know someone else thinks it's spectacular. My mother just told me she thought Finding Neverland was stupid. I almost cried. I almost cried during the movie too. Every time I saw it. And so I'm glad to hear you liked it enough to write it down in your blog and I'm not totally juvenile to love the romance, or really, maybe that I am totally juvenile; but either way, this has all been a bit of sillyness and that's ok. Thanks dearie.
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