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All good things must come to the end. This proverb is believed to have originated in the 14th century, although its precise origin is unclear. It has been used in various cultures and languages throughout history, demonstrating its universality. Mary Poppins exit feels a lot like a death.

An aspect of Nellie Rubins is her personality containing a thread of danger. She’s always warning her uncle “Uncle Ro-ger!” Leaving him befuddled. He apparently is constantly on the verge of letting out that Mary Poppins was going to help them bring in spring. Nothing Comes of her threat but it is the tension in the air throughout this chapter which strikes me. Like the bowl fairyland, they were hazards.

In the chapter 9, “Nellie-Rubina” we again see a quality of Mary Poppins not seen in films. She has a temper and the worst thing to do is to insist that some of the fantastic things she does or happens around her really do occur. She walks through insisting that there is nothing to see around her.

The eighth chapter “Balloons and More Balloons,” we meet the balloon lady in the park who advices everyone to take their time choosing the right balloon. When they choose correctly, the balloons have their names and they fly into the air. I have trouble trusting an old lady who calls everyone “dearly ducks!” Some make the wrong choice but find their match after all.

Chapter Seven, “An Evening Out” is a wonderful and strange chapter when again under the excuse of Mary Poppins’s allowed night out the children follow her under the cloak of darkness. This time they end up at a circus featuring the constellations and the moon and sun. The sun as ringmaster is also a courtier of Mary Poppins and leaves her with a kiss on her cheek.

First Corinthians 4:10 says “We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.” First Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who perish; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.” Robertson Ay is the fool in the story and in the Banks home. She may speaks harsh, Mary Poppins loves him.

Robertson Aye’s story which centers on the fairy tale featuring “the Dirty Rascal” who serves a king as a fool and shows him true wisdom. Is “it is in truth an allegory meant for the adult readers.” (LINA SLAVOVA @ https://themarypoppinseffect.com/2020...

Chapter six “Robertson Amy’s Story” is an odd work that has a story within another.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:

All human children come remembering their profound and mysterious origins but forget them. Only Mary Poppins remembers.

In “The New One” the fifth addition to the family Annabel arrives. It seems clear that Travers draws from the aromatic Wordsworth. In his “Intimations of Immortality,” he writes the following: