不作法の作法
ずっとコドモでいたい！なんて軽々しくのたまう人間ほど、コドモどころか、結局ただのガキンチョだったりする。
「精神的な幼さ」と「心の素直さ」とは、まるで別個のもの。ガキンチョは、「社会的に『コドモ』の立場にとどまること」と「若々しく瑞々しいコドモの心を持ち続けること」とを混同している。それらを的確に理解せず無責任にも不誠実な思考をしている時点で、人はオトナにもコドモにもなれていない。
偶然見つけた『ピーターパン』の原作を流し読んでいた。
フックの最期があまりにもしとやかで、切ないような痛ましいような複雑な気分になった。
James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell.
For we have come to his last moment.
Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea. He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him; for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might be spared him: a little mark of respect from us at the end.
He had one last triumph, which I think we need not grudge him. As he stood on the bulwark looking over his shoulder at Peter gliding through the air, he invited him with a gesture to use his foot. It made Peter kick instead of stab.
At last Hook had got the boon for which he craved.
"Bad form," he cried jeeringly, and went content to the crocodile.
Thus perished James Hook.
