“ To die will be an awfully big adventure. ”
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (1904). copy citation
| Author | J. M. Barrie |
|---|---|
| Source | Peter Pan |
| Topic | death adventure |
| Date | 1904 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peter_Pan,_or_The_Boy_Who_Wouldn't_Grow_U... |
Context
“PETER is afraid at last, and a tremor runs through him, like a shudder passing over the lagoon; but on the lagoon one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and he feels just the one.)
PETER (with a drum beating in his breast as if he were a real boy at last). To die will be an awfully big adventure.
(The blind rises again, and the lagoon is now suffused with moonlight. He is on the rock still, but the water is over his feet. The nest is borne nearer, and the bird, after cooing a message to him, leaves it and wings her way upwards.” source
PETER (with a drum beating in his breast as if he were a real boy at last). To die will be an awfully big adventure.
(The blind rises again, and the lagoon is now suffused with moonlight. He is on the rock still, but the water is over his feet. The nest is borne nearer, and the bird, after cooing a message to him, leaves it and wings her way upwards.” source
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