Ljudi se dele na one koji :
Vole Ameriku
Ne vole Ameriku
I manjinu koja bi da razume o čemu se radi
Takodje,
Ljudi se dele na ne koji :
Veruju u Bogove
Ne veruju u Bogove
I manjinu koja, kao, zna da se Bogovi radjaju, stare i po neki umire ako dovoljno ljudi ne veruju u njega.
Isto tako
Ljudi se dele na one koje :
Vole Neil Gaimana
Ne vole Neil Gaimana
I velika većina koja nije čula za njega
Ja sam voleo Neila-a zbog svih njegovih knjiga koje sam čitao svojoj deci ali i sebi.
Neverwhere
Smoke and Mirros
Stardust
Coraline
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Su sve knige koje sam rado delio sa svojom decom i u njima sam uživao.
Plus jedna knjiga koja je bila , oh, kako da kažem, van skale dali je za decu ili za odrasle nego je bila za one koji su spremni za nju.
American Gods.
I onda negde 20 ( verujem ) 11 , jave u školi mog klinca u Varšavi da tip koji se zove Neil Gaiman dolazi da potpisuje knige za klince u knjižari u shoping mallu.
I ja odem sa svojim sinom od 6 godina;
I on se pojavi, srednjovečni veoma poznati pisac i kaže “ ovo je moja devojaka”. I predstavi tinejdzerku koja počne da svira ukulele i peva “ Aj em frik, aj em faking frik”, pesma koju inače volim ali nisam bio siguran da je moj 6 godina star sin bio spreman da je čuje.
Enivej, posle toga sam bio malo manje fan Neila ali sam procitao The Ocean at the end of the lane kad se pojavo. Opet lepo.
Ali čarolija se izgubila i jedino po čemu sqm zaista pamtio Neila je bila knjiga “American Gods”.
Carobna knjiga.
Knjiga pre svega o dve stvari: Americi i Bogovima.
Starim Bogovima i mladoj Americi.
I mnogo toga se promenilo od kada je knjiga izasla.
Niti je Amerika toliko mlada, niti su Bogovi ( u proseku) toliko stari.
I pre par nedelja mi sin kaze dq je medju late teen omladinom veoma popularna serija “American Gods”.
Oh , kazem ja hajde da vidimo. I on skine sa torenta i u 4 dana odgledamo celu prvu sezonu.
Koja uglavnom prati knjigu.
Kamera je odlicna i glumci veoma dobri.
Odlicna muzika.
Sve u svemu vrlo dobra serija, moj savet, prvo pročitajte knigu , ako već niste.
Knjiga/serija otvara polje za slobodne asocijacije ko su naši Bogovi, koliko su stari, je su li zaista ono sto verujemo da jesu .
Bogovi su isti kao mi samo malo arogantniji.
QUOTES
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.
I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.
I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.
I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”