And I am going to just read a little bit more
from the Peter Pan book.
Skip to the end--
because I don't think I could really ruin it.
There's just too much going on on this island.
So there's this one section of the book that's very cruel.
And you see that J.M. Barrie is very cool.
Because he can just kill off whoever
he wants whenever he wants.
It's like The Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire--
like, oh, well, he's gone.
So there's a span of three sentences
in the book, Peter Pan and Wendy,
about this pirate, Skylights.
When the children first get to the island,
the narrator is telling them about all the pirates.
And they're like, they just kill each other.
Look, I'm going to kill one.
And you'll see that he dies.
And Skylights only lives for three sentences in the book.
"Skylights-- he didn't last long.
How long was he there?
I think it must have been the space of three sentences.
But that is the storyteller's way--
to kill simply to show you how it is done,
the body kicked aside, the cigars unmoved,
the pirates simply keep on, keep on.
That is what the storyteller has done, Wendy.
You didn't last long--
the space of a story.
If ever you think that the Hook is doing something
or that Peter is doing something,
you must remember that it is the storyteller who
is doing something.
Morgan Skylights, we don't quite know anything else.
And the pirates and the storyteller move on.
Move on, Skylights.
He gave one screech."