La vida de Annie

By Annie

Inappropriate?

What could be more so than an image of a young nymph gazing rapturously up the tunic of a well-proportioned young boy? It seems to have escaped the censors in Liverpool, where the Peter Pan statue holds pride of place by the Palm House in Sefton Park.

In honour of Sleepyduck and Impoftheyard, here are some Peter Pan quotes by J.M. Barrie:

"it was then that hook bit him.
not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed peter. it made him quite helpless. he could only stare, horrified. 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 he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. no one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except peter."
~ J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a strange boy who was staring at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred."
~ J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)


Barrie also had a couple of things to say about the over-zealous person/people who reported SD for posting inappropriate images:

""Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
"Why do they forget the way?"
"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly." "
~ J.M. Barrie

"Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."
~ J.M. Barrie

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