Peter Pan I Found My Marbles

I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant.

Peter pan i found my marbles. Well i ve not lost but i think i ve misplaced my joy. 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. 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.

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. 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. Is this the origin. 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.

In this game of marbles you don t need to knuckle down and there are no keepsies. Later in neverland thud butt gives peter a small bag containing tootles marbles revealing that they were his happy thoughts and he lost them literally rather than. As time passes the vase gets emptier reminding me that each day is precious my marbles are precious. The daily pleasures that keep me free to live my best life each day.

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