Mythcon 35 Guest of Honour Speech
By Neil Gaiman
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By: Sally Lloyd-Jones,
on 9/18/2009
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"The World does not lack for wonders,
but only for wonder."
–G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
By: Neil Gaiman,
on 11/1/2007
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I'm rereading Bone, still. Rereading the first episodes for the first time since I wrote the introduction to "The Great Cow Race" was really strange, in light of where the story went, but the most impressive, unexpected thing about that part of Bone is how very consistent it was from the start.
There's a G. K Chesterton quote about Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, where he says
... the fault of Pickwick (if it be a fault) is a change, not in the hero but in the whole atmosphere. The point is not that Pickwick turns into a different kind of man; it is that "The Pickwick Papers" turns into a different kind of book. And however artistic both parts may be, this combination must, in strict art, be called inartistic. A man is quite artistically justified in writing a tale in which a man as cowardly as Bob Acres becomes a man as brave as Hector. But a man is not artistically justified in writing a tale which begins in the style of "the Rivals" and ends in the style of the Iliad. In other words, we do not mind the hero changing in the course of a book; but we are not prepared for the author changing in the course of the book.
Right. Back to reading and making notes.
By: Neil Gaiman,
on 2/18/2007
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Happy Year of the Pig, to all of us.
Pigs, I learned as a boy, reading books, especially young pigs, are loveable, brave, noble and intelligent animals who have adventures.
I hope this year you get to be brave and noble and intelligent. But mostly I hope you get to have adventures.
(As G. K. Chesterton once said, An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered... )
Dear Sally. LOve the WAY you blog and all the variety you have from Chesterton to Twain to Andrew Peterson to the missionary kids LOVE IT. Thanks for inspiring me once again~ T. Lively
Thomas, thank you so much! i'm glad to know it's helpful
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