Sprinkles wrote:But it's a direct quote right? I'm not familiar enough with Peter Pan to be able to tell.
I think it's a direct quote. I was operating under that assumption anyway. The thing is, even from a very literal interpretation I'm having trouble seeing why anyone would assume "second star to the right" means fly all the way to that star. If anything, I would think it means turn when you pass the second star, but that's also pretty meaningless, because there would have to be a lot fewer stars in the sky to work out something like that. There are also various other reasons this doesn't make sense, but I still wouldn't even think to imagine the instructions to be go out to space and fly to that star. I guess you could argue that's why it's funny, because it's not something you would immediately think, but to me it's why it just came across awkward.