NH: :) Yeah, like that.
-nalo
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Michael Marc Levy wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Nalo Hopkinson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Michael Marc Levy wrote:
> >
> > > As Nicola Griffith said in an earlier post, more or less, how far can we
> > > trust an author when her statements about a story seem contradicted by
> > > the story itself?
> >
> > NH: I see this happening often, with all kinds of artmaking. Sometimes
> > the artist is not the best person to ask for an analysis of her work; a
> > lot of it happens on an unconscious level.
> >
> > -nalo
> >
> I'm reminded of an interview I did with the children's fantasy writer
> Natalie Babbitt for a book I was writing about her work. My wife, Sandy
> Lindow, who took part in the interview suggested that the plot of
> Babbitt's most recent picturebook, Nellie, A Cat on Her Own, sounded very
> similar to Babbitt's own life and that the cat's name--Nellie--sounded
> similar to Natalie. Babbitt's immediate response was to look blank and
> then say that she thought that the name similarity was probably
> coincidental because it was a last minute substitution. All the time
> she'd been writing the book, she'd been planning on calling the cat by a
> different name, Nettie. After she said that, we all sort of looked at
> each other for a minute, then Babbitt, with a bemused expression on her
> face, said something along the lines of "Oh my! You don't suppose..."
> And then we all laughed.
>
> Mike Levy
>
"Starchild here. Put a glide in your stride, and a dip in your hip, and
come on over to the Mothership."
P-Funk, "Mothership Connection"
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