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J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys: Tragedy of the little Darlings
It may be an awful thing to grow up, but what’s the alternative? Peter Pan is also known as The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. I wonder if that title might more accurately have been: The Boy Who Wasn’t Allowed to Grow Up.
Too often the origins of cherished stories are not properly examined. In the following article, author Douglas Murray reviews J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, by Andrew Birkin, itself a “psychological thriller” according to a Time reviewer.
I was exposed to the Disney version as child, and as I consider it anew as an adult, am revisiting previous insights. If anything, Peter Pan is a warning — or should be read as one — as author’s like JBP (link to YT) and others have duly noted.
Tragedy of the little Darlings | Douglas Murray | The Critic Magazine
It may be an awful thing to grow up, but what’s the alternative?
Peter Pan is also known as The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. I wonder if that title might more accurately have been: The Boy Who Wasn’t Allowed to Grow Up. Maybe you can imagine others.
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