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Wendy: Peter do you know fairies?
Peter: Yes, but they are all almost dead now. Well, Wendy when the first child laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a thousand of fragments that spattered all around, rebounding; that caused the birth of fairies. And now, when a baby is born, his first laugh becomes a fairy. So there should be a fairy for each little boy or little girl.
Wendy: Should there be? Or is there?
Peter: Oh no, children know so many things now. And for them it’s easy not to believe in fairies anymore; and each time a child says: “I don’t believe in fairies” somewhere a fairy dies.*
*James M. Berrie, Peter Pan - The child that did not want to grow up -, Act I.
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Alberto Gambale
