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I'm currently reading the 1911 novelization of Peter Pan, and was completely unprepared for this passage in a children's book (lemmy.world)
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[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

By today’s standard pretty weird. Obscene even. Even back then it must have been loaded with subconscious symbolism.