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another goodie. Poor man's father had died at the age of 70-something. Daddy had been a smoker and heavy drinker, lover of biscuits and sausage-gravy and a hard-boiled type steel worker who caroused and partied all his life, really actually cheated death. This man, his son, came to me in tears and said, "You know who I blame for my father's death?"
Me: "Who?"
Son: "The doctors!"
was a near-perfect moment.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.
"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie
Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
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