Neil Gaiman wrote back to me

Or at least he answered the long comment I wrote to him in his blog.

Back story:

As part of a writer’s charity fundraiser, Neil agreed that if the group met its stretch goal, he would record a video of himself reading Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.  They did, and he did, and did it quite well.

The problem is that recently I’ve been thinking about some of the other ways you can read that text, and the alternate readings are both bothersome and valid, in my mind.   So I wrote him.   I went to his journal, and found the “Ask Neil” link, and wrote him a long comment about my difficulties with the text.

And today he replied.  He wrote a graceful comment acknowledging my concerns without discounting them, but also gently chiding me for going lit-crit on the text (which, fair go’s, I did).  If you want to see my comment and his response, they’re both right here.  Scroll all the way to the end, and there I am (anonymized, because trolls and haters).