Johnny Depp as Master Peevish?

There is a rumor around that Johnny Depp was interested in buying the big cattle ranch in the middle of our little island, but the deal has fallen through. Too bad. I had fantasies of running into him at the grocery store when we were buying zucchini squash and socks, and I would convince him to make a movie of Alchemy and Meggy Swann. He would make a great dark-haired, dark-eyed, obsessed alchemist. I didn”t picture Master Peevish as a sympathetic or romantic figure, but Johnny Depp would have made him so. Farewell, Johnny. I hardly knew you.