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JMBarrie / J.M. Barrie and Nietzsche?
« on: September 20, 2011, 05:05:03 AM »
Hello! My name is Erika. I'm an undergraduate at Ithaca College doing an independent study on Peter Pan, its mythos, and development as a folktale. I'm wondering about the creation of name "Never-never Land". I was reading Nietzsche's "On Truth and lies in the Non-moral Sense" and found a passage that mentions a "never-never land", though only in passing. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about a connection between J.M. Barrie and Nietzsche - even just some text of his indicating that yes indeed he did read Nietzsche, or that it somehow was an inspiration. Anything on this would be helpful, even just on the etymology of "never-never land" as a place/metaphysical concept, etc...