![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Essay Rec
Neil Gaiman's blog has reprinted a really brilliant intro he once wrote to a Doctor Who novel. Go read the whole thing.
[T]he shape of reality – the way I perceive the world – exists only because of Dr Who... It redefined reality... These days, as a middle-aged and respectable author, I still feel a sense of indeterminate but infinite possibility on entering a lift, particularly a small one with white walls. That to date the doors that have opened have always done so in the same time, and world, and even the same building in which I started out seems merely fortuitous – evidence only of a lack of imagination on the part of the rest of the universe.
I do not confuse what has not happened with what cannot happen
I often talk about the viral nature of fandom. He is talking about a deeper virus - the whole imagination. Fantastic stuff!
[T]he shape of reality – the way I perceive the world – exists only because of Dr Who... It redefined reality... These days, as a middle-aged and respectable author, I still feel a sense of indeterminate but infinite possibility on entering a lift, particularly a small one with white walls. That to date the doors that have opened have always done so in the same time, and world, and even the same building in which I started out seems merely fortuitous – evidence only of a lack of imagination on the part of the rest of the universe.
I do not confuse what has not happened with what cannot happen
I often talk about the viral nature of fandom. He is talking about a deeper virus - the whole imagination. Fantastic stuff!