Neil Gaiman at the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2015
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- One of the words that most accurately describes Douglas Adams' works is "timeless". In his lecture on "Immortality and Douglas Adams", Neil Gaiman will speak about the enduring nature of Adams' vision and imagination, the impact of the internet and eBooks on storytelling as a whole, and why stories can sometimes outlive us all.
This is the 13th Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture in the series.
The Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture is held each year in honour of Save the Rhino founder patron Douglas Adams, who was a dedicated spokesperson for conservation right up until his death in 2001 at the age of 49.You can read more about Douglas and his interest in conservation here:
www.savetherhino.org/about/tru...
The lecture is held in aid of two charities, Save the Rhino and the Environmental Investigation Agency. You can help support these causes.
Donate today:
Save the Rhino International: www.savetherhino.org/
Environmental Investigation Agency: eia-international.org/
Neil gets started at 17:00
MisterFrosty Thank you, my fine gentleman.
+MisterFrosty Just saved my life. Thank you!
Thanks! You just saved me a couple of minutes. I appreciate it, seriously.
you are a gentleman and a scholar and i thank you
Thank You!
I'm literally in tears. One of my heroes talking about one of my other heroes
We have got to bring this back. There wasn’t a memorial lecture in 2017 - 2020
Here here to both comments and? I have to witness it live. I’m tickled blue to hear my daughters favorite author paying tribute to my favorite. I’m equally tickled, because she introduced me to Neil’s writing and he became my second favorite. How absolutely hoopy can you get? Edited to add: I didn’t make the connection to “Coraline” until all these years later.
Neil Gaiman is that God Given proof that stories live and give us life. Incomparable writer, speaker and humane human being. What a talk! Thank you...
I still have, and still wear every day, my Seiko Quartz LC digital watch - circa 1975.
And, being retired, I'm find myself enormously grateful for the day of the week line at the top of the display.
I’ve commented, on two other comments so far while listening. I have to make one last. I feel very lucky and honored to have had the privilege to delved into Neil’s and Douglas’s mind and work. I haven’t read them all. With Douglas, I’m dragging it out, he’s gone. With Neil, just slowly savoring every moment as well. Their writing, has made me a better human being. Cheers to you both gentlemen. Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us all. Edited to add: How fitting such human beings would dedicate so much time, energy, love and money to saving such incredible creatures.
One of the things I’m most proud of besides my digital watch, is creating a love for reading in my daughter. Throughout her childhood, we read together. Years later she introduced me to Neil after I had introduced Douglas years earlier. My favorite author, Douglas and her favorite Neil. Incredible, talented, warm, caring amazing human beings. Good stuff beyond comparison.
1:18:40 - “Education is huge. We can wrap that in stories if we wish. We need to take whatever megaphone we have, whatever audience storytelling has brought us, and use that to draw peoples’ attention to the shortsightedness and stupidity of the human race and the fact that we have to learn to share.”
Absolutely wonderful! Thank you Neil. A touching and amazing discourse on immortality and the impact of story. And how much we all miss Douglas Adams. Thank you.
I very much love Neil Gaiman. His voice and the way he says things and the things he says are always magical and I love him enormously.
the book about douglas adams: don't panic was amazing. thank you neil gaiman...
Another memorable evening. How wonderful to be able to enjoy it again!
We gotta bring it back in 2022
I'd love an audiobook with Gaiman reading Hitchhiker's. He would spin it in so many new ways.
Wish you were here.
Neil does a great job here
Thoroughly entertaining - loved him reading HHG; could almost recount that whole section from memory
Two brilliant authors and both very erudite, clever, funny and genius.
The brilliance of HHG is the quality of writing and the love of sci fi. Greatest thing is pointing out the silly side of things, introducing mind boggling concepts and absurdity in equal measure.
The whole section from 'restaurant' about the new earth and using leaves as currency is simply wonderfully perceptive, funny, knowing and full of pathos. It's brilliant.
Ah, great stuff
Such a beautiful talk. Emotions
I think the answer to the question "when did the internet become a tool for being offended" is very early on, and it's usefulness for that purpose increases every time some new joins the internet. The internet is very like the babel fish - the internet has allowed more and more people to express what they think and feel, and to learn what other people think and feel. Once upon a time we were insulated from the opinions of strangers and people we disagreed with - now we know what they think we HATE them, and we have the ability to tell them so. There is a certain amount of offence-taking on the internet that isn't really genuine, or due to misunderstandings, but fundamentally it's about people communicating their genuine loathing for one another.
and this is useful? The ability to communicate loathing? We must live in different universes.
eBooks have one significant advantage over printed books. You can look stuff up on them. If you're not sure who a character is, you can do search. See where they came up before. This is a significant advantage, especially to those of us who's memories are not quite as sharp as they once were.
God's last message to his creation, "We apologize for the inconvenience."
I subbed you
I want to give Neil a hug.
Neil Gaiman is so lovely!
I sensed relief in the round of applause 1h 9mins. Geeeeeet to the, eeeeend of your, sentence, man.
1:16:20 - 1:19:23 Neil answers my question on communicating conservation issues.
now terry pratchett has passed neil gaiman is my favourite author. I 1st read on of his stories in 2000ad back in the 1980s. he did a couple episodes for the 'future shocks' series.
Thank you!
Wow, Doug & Terry. You Lucky Fucker. xxx
Wikipedia = The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. Brilliant!
A wonderful event for an even better cause. Let's save the rhinos!
Why....why were there empty chairs?
Probably didn't get paying contribution levels.
maybe b/c you didn't get the flyer
Lovely.
re you sure this is 2015 cause it seems like theyr talking about his death in 1995
+David Ayarra he died in may 2001
you didnt get the joke
Audio on the right earphone only?
Stories are not dreams? What about Coleridge's Kubla Khan? A dream cut short in the telling by the infamous and yet anonymous 'man from Porlock'?
“When did the internet become a tool for being offended?” “When did people elevate being outraged to an art form?” “Is there anything we can do to fix it?” Since the answers are clearly "yes," "always," and "maybe," it may be time for Gaiman the Mementis Professor of Chronicling to tell us what it is he dreamed.
There were sharks before there were trees, they currently say. Like 430 million years, approx.
IMO Neil should have written "And another thing". He has the spirit 👍
Edit: 1:22:30 Oh dear, he would not have done it.
Niel gets started at 1:25.
Great talk and all, but does he wear the rhino costume?
Am I the only one focusing on what really matters here?
I'm up for licences making it legal world wide to hunt endangered species Poachers, Fox hunters, trophy hunters, Commercial Whalers & the like including the politicians that condone this horrid trade.....
17 minutes of windbaggery before the main course
This wlil also die if the planet dies.
That's hours, not minutes. I love this guy and I do not love this lecture.
This guy talks and talks and talk and talks and never really says anything, other than an occasional joke. Why is he here?
That isn’t the question YOU should be asking …why are you here?
We all know why we are …
Rather than complaining about something you don’t want …go away , change the channel , or stfu ….
why are you wasting your time with someone you do not understand nor appreciate? As one of the most creative storytelling minds of the last three years Gaiman can stand up to boorishness such as yours. By ignoring it.
This is awful! It is hard for me to imagine anything worst being linked to Douglas Adams/ Last chance to see........ The speaker is just trying to seam very smart and profound. He is none! I have reached this video after a rabit hole containing LAst chance to see and other stuff. After hearing Douglas Adams's fun, whitty, easygoing aproach... having to listen to this stuffed academic/writer is fisically paintfull!!! It is a crime against humor to have this person talk about it. It is like lord Kelvin talking about Tesla!!!!!!
You don't know much about Neil Gaiman, do you? He's a big fan of Douglas Adams, & is trying to be both informative, and respectful. And if you check any library, you'll find Neil Gaiman is ANYTHING but an academic!!
Don't talk about smart and profound when you spell 'physically' with an 'f'......
no man douglas is profound enough to have his colleague ruminate this way even while tacit and physically painful to other
I’m guessing the OP didn’t get past the stuffed academic giving the first introduction.