xix-xx Peter Pan was an incredibly expensive [1904 London theater] show to put on, requiring massive
sets and a cast of more than fifty, including a dog, a fairy, a crocodile, an eagle, wolves, pirates, and redskins, and at
least four cast members would be required to fly... Barrie first showed the play to Beerbolm Tree, one of the most famous
actors and directors of the period... Tree did not at all approve of the play; he wrote the following assessment and sent
it to [Barrie's producer] Frohman:
Barrie has gone out of his mind.... I am sorry to say it, but you ought to know it. He's just read
me a play. He is going to read it to you, so I am warning you. I have not gone woozy in my mind, because I have tested myself
since hearing the play; but Barrie must be mad.
p.11 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... 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... with astonishing splashes of colour here and there... it is all rather confusing,
especially as nothing will stand still.
p.11-12 Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal... On these magic shores children at play are for ever
beaching their coracles [simple boats]. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land
no more.
p.13 she didn't know how she knew it, she just knew it.
p.26 "You're dreadfully ignorant."
"No, I'm not."
But she was exulting in his ignorance.
p.38 "Second to the right, and straight on till morning."
That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting
them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.
p.68 "That doesn't matter," said Peter, as if he were the only person present who knew about it, though
he was really the one who knew least.
p.69 Of course, when you have mastered the action you are able to do these things without thinking of them,
and then nothing can be more graceful.
p.112 Hook's master mind had gone far beneath Slightly's surface, probing not for effects but for causes;
and his exultation showed that he had found them.
p.119 There was no other course but to press forward... But in what direction... ?
p.127 Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have
happened.
p.134 So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing."
"Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing."
"Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
"Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee."
Without more words they fell to, and for a space there was no advantage to either blade.
