The ordinary pleasures of everyday New Orleans
Neil Gaiman
Filed: Miscellany @ 4:45pm on June 3, 2007 No comments yet! :(
I’ve always been a huge Gaiman fan. He’s both softened and sharpened himself since he became a grown up and had his daughter. He just seems a genuinely decent sort. Anyway, I guess I’m feeling mushy on a humid Sunday afternoon, so here’s Gaiman reading one of his poems, “Instructions,” about how to behave if you find yourself in a fairy tale.
My favorite verse:
Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat nothing.
However, if any creature tells you that it hungers,
feed it.
If it tells you that it is dirty,
clean it.
If it cries to you that it hurts,
if you can,
ease its pain.
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