(Warning: repugicans [and other wing-nuts] should avoid reading this segment because it deals with facts - something that is totally foreign to them and therefore it is unknown what detrimental effects the truth will have own them and their warped psyches.)
Today we introduce a new segment where we present a few random facts (this is an upgrade of the old 'random facts' posts of the past).
So without further Adieu ...
Here are the facts:
1. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
2. Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
3. When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
4. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown eyes are the least sensitive.
5. A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagon Beetle.
6. The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
3 comments:
Actually, the name Wendy was made up for the play - it came first! :)
And for a Peter Pan adventure unlike any other:
http://www.peterpansneverworld.com/
BELIEVE!
Not quite, there, The Never Fairy.
The play was not performed before the book - the book was a stageplay that was later published for mass distribution without the stage directions included ... leading some to the error you made.
All plays are written in book form whether the book is originally written as a stageplay or as a novel - the only difference is the inclusion or exclusion of stage directions from the author.
The play was indeed performed before the book. Barrie wrote it as a play (whether or not you call this the publication of it a book is up for grabs). The play went up in 1904.
Barrie then, in 1911, published the book/novel which is quite different from the stage play. (In terms of information given and narration.)
So, to say the name was made up for the book (novel) is not correct. He didn't originally set out to write a novel, it was a stage play.
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