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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
... more to come when I'm capable of articulating myself again. Perhaps.
For now, let it be said that Neil Gaiman is Teh Awesome (which will surprise nobody), that in his voice and way of talking he reminds me a lot of Prof. Aczel, that I hate being incapable of uttering something intelligent at signings (alas, I am a personality cultist after all), and that nimielle and I had a flash of amusement at noticing that 'kneel' and 'Neil' are homophones. (Right, I'll explain that one. So as we were getting closer and closer to Neil and we were feeling all nervous and fangirly, I suddenly had to think of that anecdote with the guy meeting Tolkien in a pub and later recalling that it was really nice and they had a wonderful talk, but it was really really hard not to kneel, so I said to nimielle, "Whatever you do, don't kneel", and she heard, "don't Neil", and there was much exhilarated giggling.)
There were way too many brilliant, funny and deep Quotes of the Day, none of which are present in my brain at present, because I fail and didn't think of bringing some kind of recording device. Or a camera. Did bring American Gods and Neverwhere for him to scrawl in, though.
macalla_: Got your copy, too. Am tempted to keep it, because it's an all-new edition with the "author's preferred text". As it's dedicated to you, though, I guess you're lucky ;)
nimielle, thank you for coming along! I would've been terrified to go alone.
... and one funny tidbit after all, because I can at least remember that:
(The reading was held at a car dealer, because the lit.COLOGNE intends to bring literature to extraordinary places.)
Gneil: "I'll read a paragraph, and then Gerd will read another paragraph in German. It'll work. And if it doesn't, you'll get a free car."
... cannot brain. Off to London Below Bremen bed.
... more to come when I'm capable of articulating myself again. Perhaps.
For now, let it be said that Neil Gaiman is Teh Awesome (which will surprise nobody), that in his voice and way of talking he reminds me a lot of Prof. Aczel, that I hate being incapable of uttering something intelligent at signings (alas, I am a personality cultist after all), and that nimielle and I had a flash of amusement at noticing that 'kneel' and 'Neil' are homophones. (Right, I'll explain that one. So as we were getting closer and closer to Neil and we were feeling all nervous and fangirly, I suddenly had to think of that anecdote with the guy meeting Tolkien in a pub and later recalling that it was really nice and they had a wonderful talk, but it was really really hard not to kneel, so I said to nimielle, "Whatever you do, don't kneel", and she heard, "don't Neil", and there was much exhilarated giggling.)
There were way too many brilliant, funny and deep Quotes of the Day, none of which are present in my brain at present, because I fail and didn't think of bringing some kind of recording device. Or a camera. Did bring American Gods and Neverwhere for him to scrawl in, though.
macalla_: Got your copy, too. Am tempted to keep it, because it's an all-new edition with the "author's preferred text". As it's dedicated to you, though, I guess you're lucky ;)
nimielle, thank you for coming along! I would've been terrified to go alone.
... and one funny tidbit after all, because I can at least remember that:
(The reading was held at a car dealer, because the lit.COLOGNE intends to bring literature to extraordinary places.)
Gneil: "I'll read a paragraph, and then Gerd will read another paragraph in German. It'll work. And if it doesn't, you'll get a free car."
... cannot brain. Off to London Below Bremen bed.