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MEMBER BLOG TAG: boundaries

Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:54AM
 
Neil Gaiman: Books and Imagination
Tags: graphic novel, boundaries, boycots, homosexuality, freedom, libraries, rules
 
What wit! from his boots to his expressive face and anecdotes, Neil Gaiman is surely one of the most entertaining of performers and well as writers. I loved his telling about his reading while walking along as a child (of course we all did that) and bumping into a lamp post to which he would apologize (we didn't think of doing that, alas). And about the local librarians worried that he would let on he was a feral child entirely raised by them: they would get used as a day care center.

He enjoyed, said he, writing comics, because they had only been around 100 years instead of 3000, so there were no rules, and he was therefore free.  The ultimate compliment paid...
 
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