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The book? A couple hundred pages, I'd say, but it's easy reading. I thought it was tedious when I tried to read it at age eight, but when I picked it up last winter, I thought it was delightful. (It helps that I now know lots more about language and history than I did 10 years ago: the book was written a century ago.)

I read most of the article you e-mailed me. I sort of think that people just love to tear about childhood stories and find sexual inuendos underneath. Well, I know very well that anything can be made into a sexual inuendo, and whether or not J.M. Barrie had one kind of thought or another kind of thought when he wrote his book, the fact is that millions of children (and adults) have enjoyed the book as a faery story. Need it be anything else? Can't it just be a pretty, albeit somewhat dark, faery tale? Do we have to force sex into everything?

I'm in a rotton mood tonight, so pardon my strong language! It's an interesting discussion, eh? Sex, faery tales, films, authors, childhood?

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