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“…and he would so have loved this evening. The pirates, and the Indians; he was really just a boy himself, you know, to the very end. I suppose it’s all the work of the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us. Isn’t that right?”

–      – old Mrs. Snow,

speaking to J.M. Barrie on the opening night of his play, Peter Pan, in 1904. Transcribed from the movie Finding Neverland, in which Johnny Depp plays J.M. Barrie and Dustin Hoffman plays his financier. A good movie, deep and quiet, with no helicopters in it. (One can always determine the badness of a movie by the number of helicopters in it.) But don’t expect a happy ending. This is, sadly, a true story.

“Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. And then before you know it, they’re grown.”

–      – Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie, Finding Neverland (2004)


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“And after a long time the boy came back again.

‘I am sorry, boy,’ said the tree, ‘but I have nothing left to give you. My apples are gone.’

‘My teeth are too weak for apples,’ said the boy.

‘My branches are gone,’ said the tree, ‘you cannot swing on them.’

‘I am too old to swing on branches,’ said the boy.

‘My trunk is gone,’ said the tree, ‘you cannot climb.’

‘I am too tired to climb,’ said the boy.

‘I am sorry,’ sighed the tree, ‘I wish I could give you something, but I have nothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry.’

‘I don’t need very much now,’ said the boy, ‘just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.’

‘Well,’ said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, ‘ an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, boy. Sit down and rest.’

And the boy did.

And the tree was happy.

 “

- Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree, 1964

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