Writing the ultimate escape, imagination. Teaching, tantalizing, tremendous fiction! Creating a story from brain smoke and flickering pixels on a white screen, peeling narrative and prose from the ether …cash registers and “please hold” seems so trivial after such transportation.
What I love most about Neil Gaiman’s characters is that even the very bitterest of them have a soft belly and a quiet optimism. His stories always involve real danger, real consequences, and sometimes blood-curdling threats of fae-like violence, but there’s a sense that we’re just looking at one side of the coin…
Life can be merciless and unfair. In order to survive in human society, one must be aware and savvy to the malevolence that lurks around every corner and behind so many smiling faces…
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