Here is a picture of one of my favorite authors – Neil Gaiman, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and all-around swell guy.
Here is a picture of a Giant Panda.
And here is a picture of Neil Gaiman with a Giant Panda sitting on his lap.
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Neil posted an entry (dated August 29, 2007; click here for the post then scroll down until you see pandas) at http://www.neilgaiman.com/, his online journal, in which he describes a recent trip to the Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Centre in the Sichuan province of China and has this to say about being a world-famous author, and about pandas:
you get shown all the cool stuff, get to see Pandas, red ones and giant ones, and then find yourself put in a blue disposable smock and gloves (to protect the pandas from you, asnd [sic] not the other way around) and you get a year-old Panda placed on your lap. Utter, utter happiness. Better than any number of awards. Makes being a writer completely worthwhile. I suspect that world peace and harmony would come about in weeks if people just got to put pandas on their laps every few months. Honest.
Simply put, pandas are great.
And if I can somehow arrange affairs so that I too can one day travel the world - a successful and world-famous author - and have a Giant Panda sit on my lap, then I too would be a very happy camper indeed.
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He’s so lucky. I think I’d be the happiest moo cow alive if I got to hold a baby panda in my lap. I feel kind of obsessed with them sometimes… I don’t know.
I hope you get to travel the world and hold baby pandas. ^_^
Thanks for the lovely comment.
And as far as traveling the world and holding baby pandas, I hope so too.