[lit-ideas] Re: Brain yoga
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:28:22 +0100
>Why don't we hear about Darling's mate?
"... until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady,
with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was
like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East,
however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking
mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was,
perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been
boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and
they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a
cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the
innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave
up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can
picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door."
from _Peter Pan_ by J.M. Barrie
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