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[beowabbit]

cathijosephine and I are at a deli in Times Square at 2:30am having pancakes and beer. I ♥ NY.

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I think you didn't intend to reply to my comment

[devoken.livejournal.com]

...but being the silly person that I am, I'll answer your questions anyway. :)

1.) Gaiman was making a distinction between genre fiction and fiction that happens to have a genre setting. As he put it "there are spy novels, and novels which happen to have spies in them." The comparison to musicals and porn came into play because they were examples of genre fiction, i.e., "the plot exists as a machine to get you from song to song or from sex scene to sex scene, and also to stop all the songs (or sex) from happening at the same time."

As to the Bollywood director making porn - I suspect you're right, and that Bollywood porn would be amazing.

Re: I think you didn't intend to reply to my comment

[beowabbit]

Oops. That's very weird. All logic tells me it must have been human error on my part, but I had some very weird things going on before I posted that attempted reply to another comment in another journal, and I am giving my web browser and LiveJournal very suspicious looks, in case one of them can be intimidated into a confession.

But thanks for replying anyway! You must have been at the same talk as the person I was trying to reply to. (Or maybe it's a standard analogy Gaiman uses.)