After the First World War

Writing Scotland: How Scotland’s Writers Shaped the Nation
author: Carl MacDougall
Polygon, Edinburgh, 2004

p. 96
The play [Peter Pan] was a huge success and has been adapted for various media many times, most familiarly in the Disney versions. But ten years after it was premiered, the generation who grew up with Peter’s cheery notion that ‘death is an awfully big adventure’ found [p. 97] themselves marching off to the battlefields of the First World War. Off-duty soldiers drew comfort from Never Land, a place of eternal childhood. The adventure of death- the greatest adventure of all- would have guaranteed eternal youth, a consolation many soldiers must have carried with them when they faced the guns.
The line was removed after the war.”

Slinkachu, "Scars", London
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