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Haha, that was funny! :D
But I think a more apropos comparison would be MLD as Mr. Darling. Trying to make others take his medicine when he can't and won't swallow it himself. ;)
I was taken back to learn that the photos we often see of Michael dressed as Peter Pan were not the only photos sent to the sculptor. Barrie took nude photos of Michael as Peter Pan. I do not remember that in Andrew's book, but have checked sources and this is in print more than once. The reference is in one of Barie's letters. Michael was I believe 6 at the time those were taken and for me this raises some questions.
And MLD, if you read me and I am sure you do, pisse-froid, petit émasculé de mes deux, if you attack Barrie or Andrew, I consider that you attack me personally. Be careful, I am not as polite as the gentlemen and the women on this forum... Beat it!
Andrew - don't waste your money on his book. Dudgeon writes:
"...since Uncle Jim gave him photographs of the beautiful, angelic, naked Michael to go on. He wrote to Sylvia: 'Frampton was very taken with Mick's pictures and I had to leave them with him,' but, no doubt to Michael's relief, "he prefers the Peter clothes to a nude child...". However, although he cites the letter, he does not give its actual reference or source and the bit about giving Frampton the photos is written by Dudgeon, not Barrie's alleged actual words. I'm not saying that Dudgeon made it up, but why doesn't give his source - could it be because it's taken out of context? For all we know, there may well have been such pictures, but more likely similar to the very sweet and innocent ones of SLD and PLD in 1899 on the Rustington beach on an typical English summer day which feature in your book...
the quote from Barrie's letter to Sylvia (11 April 1909) comes from my book, p174:
"Frampton was very taken with Mick's pictures & I had to leave them with him. He prefers the Peter clothes to a nude child. It will take him at least two years. George's wife can unveil it. I don't feel gay, so no more at present, dear Jocelyn."
Andrew is the man on Earth who knows Barrie the best and he is a talented man in many ways. No one did and will do better than him to explain Barrie's heart and soul. Take that, petite tête!
And MLD, if you read me and I am sure you do, pisse-froid, petit émasculé de mes deux, if you attack Barrie or Andrew, I consider that you attack me personally. Be careful, I am not as polite as the gentlemen and the women on this forum... Beat it!
Amen...nudity doesn't automatically equal something sexual. If that's the case my mom should be going to jail for those bathtub pics at age 3 lol And half the parents on the planet :P
PRECISELY--it amazes me how foolish our culture has become to think that nudity or even the reproductive organs are always automatically equated with sexuality. What's next, parents being forbidden from bathing their children unless the children are in their clothes (so they won't be naked)? Parents being required to keep their kids in diapers until they reach puberty (or perhaps adulthood) so they won't see their privates until they're "ready" to be sexually active?
PRECISELY--it amazes me how foolish our culture has become to think that nudity or even the reproductive organs are always automatically equated with sexuality. What's next, parents being forbidden from bathing their children unless the children are in their clothes (so they won't be naked)? Parents being required to keep their kids in diapers until they reach puberty (or perhaps adulthood) so they won't see their privates until they're "ready" to be sexually active?
Naa... that won't happen...
... everyone will just need to have a lawyer with them every time they're in a room with a naked child. ::)
Including their OWN naked child, and then the lawyers will take advantage of their proximity to molest the children themselves and blame the parents and get the kids taken away by Child Protective Services, blah blah blah....
Point is, it's stupid.
There are only 4 photos extant of Michael dressed as P P, taken at Rustington in 1906. Two of them were in Peter's wife Pee's album (the one that mysteriously went missing after I returned it to Peter's son Rivvy in 1976, but which I had already rephotographed in 35mm), the 3rd was in Nico's album called "Sunny Memories" (the superb one on the cover of my book), and the 4th - of Michael and Barrie together (the photo on this website's homepage) was loose in a box. There may of course have been others, but to the best of my knowledge none have ever surfaced in the 30+ years I've been on the case.