The original unabridged Peter Pan is a wonderful read. Moving quietly through the forest on his way to rescue the Lost Boys and Wendy, kidnapped on the Pirate Ship, Peter Pan passes the crocodile and starts ticking. [The crocodile, if you remember, has swallowed a clock in the past.] He continues ticking for so long that it becomes automatic. When Peter comes up the side of the pirate ship, still unconsciously ticking, he wonders why Captain Hook and the pirates have fled the deck, hearing the sound of the crocodile.
He remembers he is ticking and figures it out. "Oh, the cleverness of me!"
I watched Die Hard again for the first time in several years, as the character John McClane hunts bad guys through the jungles of a building under construction, eventually calling out the Chief Bad Guy--Snape--"Yipee Ki Yo, chickenplucker!" What an elegant Captain Hook is the Chief Bad Guy, and what a gleeful Peter Pan is John McClane.
I'm just saying.
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