Peter Pan I Found My Marbles

The marbles represented at least to him a source balance or logic in his life without which he came to see himself as a bumbling idiot.

Peter pan i found my marbles.

You re a you re a complex freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and i don t know why you have wings but you have very lovely legs and you re a very nice tiny person and what am i saying i don t know who my mother was. I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant. A there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan. Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook.

Is this the origin. After peter and his family arrive at wendy s house peter sees him crawling on the floor and he explains i ve lost my marbles which peter banning readily agrees with. In this game of marbles you don t need to knuckle down and there are no keepsies. Upon finding his marbles he became more spontaneous and joyful over the fact that he hadn t really lost his marbles and he was a whole functioning person as he believed he once was.

As time passes the vase gets emptier reminding me that each day is precious my marbles are precious. Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles. Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan. The daily pleasures that keep me free to live my best life each day.

Unlike toodles a fictitious character my marbles can be lost or wasted but they can never be found. In peter pan who was it that said i ve lost my marbles.