How it might have turned out for Hugo and Edward

[charlie_cochrane]

You know how you read something and it sticks with you?

Michael Llewellyn-Davies (one of the inspirations for the Darling boys in Peter Pan and the model for the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens) died in May 1921, drowning with his friend Rupert Buxton while bathing in a mill-pond at Standford Pool, Oxford. "Michael had never been able to swim and there was widespread speculation after his death, that in fact the two inseparable companions had made a suicide pact."

Isn't that sad? And it did make me think of my Hugo and Edward.

Comments

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

The suicide rate among glbt teens is considerably higher than their het counterparts. At that time, there may have seemed like no other way out. But you do also have that lovely old tomb inscription that's the better possibility.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

That doesn't surprise me. One of the charities I support is for GLBT kids who've been kicked out of their homes - such a shame that people can't learn to embrace difference.

Tomb inscription? Ooh do enlighten me.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

the one you posted about! - isn't there a gravestone at Cambridge of two dons who were clearly the closest of friends?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I'd lost the plot there. There are two, both lovely. "Love joined them in living. So may the earth join them in their burial."

If you have a mo (but soon, it won't be there long) go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wogan/pauseforthought.shtml and look at Ruth Scott's thought for yesterday. She's a star.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

It's really choked me up. Somewhere I read they'd been found twined together. *sniff*

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

That was the mental image I got when I read that. Damned stupid haters... I hope they recycled and have another chance in happier circumstances.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I feel I'm going to have to write this out of my system. I believe there's a play about these two, somewhere.

[trusea.livejournal.com]

This makes me very, very sad :( I want to hug Hugo and Edward now...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

It made me all choked up, too. I can see it so clearly in my mind, those poor lads. One of the things I saw said their bodies were entwined. *sobs*

Hugo and Edward say they'd love a hug.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

Tell the boys if they want to visit their auntie in Canada they're welcome, and we'll throw them a wedding breakfast!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

You'll have to wait until their Auntie here is finished with them. Then they're on their way.

[fiona-glass.livejournal.com]

Awww, sniffles. I feel so sad for them. Things like that always choke me up too - I remember sobbing after the suicide pact at the end of Operation Daybreak, for instance.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

It is sad, isn't it?

I hadn't heard of that film - so I just googled it. Must add it to my to-watch list.

[fiona-glass.livejournal.com]

It's not the best film in the world (Martin Shaw is really wooden!) but that scene has stayed with me for years. I don't think the two young men were meant to be lovers, particularly, but the scene was incredibly 'slashy' all the same...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Martin Shaw does have a tendency to resmbling a plank at times. We saw him in a play in Southampton once, which I can honestly say was the worst night I ever spent in a theatre. :)

[just-jac7.livejournal.com]

So desperately sad and heartbreaking - breaks one's heart.

My worst night was watching the stage show Chicago in Sydney quite a few years ago.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it just? I feel I need to write it out of my system or something.

The only good thing about the Martin Shaw fiasco was seeing Terence Stamp in the bar...