Last evening we were in need of a Break, yes, an upper-case Break. So, we surveyed the Dear Children who elected to eat their dinners in front of Peter Pan.
Now, overall, Pan is not my favorite story. But there are lots of great details.
Right at the beginning you get the wonderful image of Mrs Darling's "sweet mocking mouth" with "one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner."
And then Mr Darling steps up to the plate in manly style, taking responsibility for his family, and at the same time gratifying the classical homeschoolers among us with, "'I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA.' He had had a classical education."
And then there is Captain Hook's "passion for good form.
"Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters.
"From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep. 'Have you been good form to-day?' was their eternal question.
"'Fame, fame, that glittering bauble, it is mine,' he cried.
"'Is it quite good form to be distinguished at anything?' the tap-tap from his school replied.
....
"Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
"His vitals were tortured by this problem. It was a claw within him sharper than the iron one; and as it tore him, the perspiration dripped down his tallow countenance and streaked his doublet. Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.
"Ah, envy not Hook."
And in the movie, they let Hook give the mighty exclamation I love, "Split my infinitives!"
I will have to watch for chances to quote that. | 
