J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy contains one of the most unsettling lines in children’s literature: “The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out.” I stopped cold at that line. Thins them out. Had that always been there? Yes, it had. Sitting there calmly waiting for someone to notice it since 1911. It took over a cen…
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