tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post4126914433274822796..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Video Sunday - Authors in their Natural Habitatfusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-29404224264703844942007-05-20T19:42:00.000-04:002007-05-20T19:42:00.000-04:00One is. One is indeed.I think the bats-are-rodent...One is. One is indeed.<BR/><BR/>I think the bats-are-rodents idea harkens back to the Calvin & Hobbes where Calvin keeps insisting in his "report" that they are, in fact, insects.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-90434528565108299252007-05-20T17:24:00.000-04:002007-05-20T17:24:00.000-04:00Then again, since Persepolis is being made into a ...Then again, since Persepolis is being made into a film from a book, it is an adaptation. And since it's citizens of France who are doing the adapting, it is French. So one could say that it's a French adaptation. If one were looking for an out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-43575337220779268122007-05-20T15:59:00.000-04:002007-05-20T15:59:00.000-04:00Second correction: Persepolis was originally writt...Second correction: Persepolis was originally written and published *in* French, so it's the English edition that's the adaption. The French is the original.<BR/><BR/>Do bats not happen in other parts of the country? I just thought that was normal. I live very near Gaiman, so bats are a fairly normal thing here, but it never occurred to me that they may not be normal elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-26697511483280221042007-05-20T14:07:00.000-04:002007-05-20T14:07:00.000-04:00One wee correction: bats aren't rodents. They belo...One wee correction: bats aren't rodents. They belong to the order called Chiroptera, which means "hand-wing." They've more in common with humans than they have with mice (though many of them have those cute mouse-like faces).<BR/><BR/>Neil Gaiman <I>is</I> gallant, though.Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733517166056974501noreply@blogger.com