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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2237593, member: 5833"]The sculptor took some real liberties. Statue is more influenced by the Peter of Peter & Wendy. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a tale within a tale in Barrie's Little White Bird. In that version Peter is only 2 weeks old, a baby in a nightgown, when he flies away from the unbarred window of his nursery, & settles down to rest, perched on a branch of a tree on the island in the Serpentine where the birds live. He's able to do this because all babies were birds before they were born & he doesn't realize that he is not a bird anymore. He still believes he can fly & 'to have faith is to have wings.' Once he is disabused of this notion he is no longer has the ability. Over time he gives most of his nightgown away in strips for the birds to line their nests, saving only a sleeve, & goes about without clothes after that. What he does with the sleeve & how he eventually gets across the water to the Gardens, meets the fairies & becomes the piper for their balls is another story. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2237593, member: 5833"]The sculptor took some real liberties. Statue is more influenced by the Peter of Peter & Wendy. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a tale within a tale in Barrie's Little White Bird. In that version Peter is only 2 weeks old, a baby in a nightgown, when he flies away from the unbarred window of his nursery, & settles down to rest, perched on a branch of a tree on the island in the Serpentine where the birds live. He's able to do this because all babies were birds before they were born & he doesn't realize that he is not a bird anymore. He still believes he can fly & 'to have faith is to have wings.' Once he is disabused of this notion he is no longer has the ability. Over time he gives most of his nightgown away in strips for the birds to line their nests, saving only a sleeve, & goes about without clothes after that. What he does with the sleeve & how he eventually gets across the water to the Gardens, meets the fairies & becomes the piper for their balls is another story. :)[/QUOTE]
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