Huh. Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hi there, I'm Jason Gautz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Adult life, with all its schedules and responsibilities, can turn into a kind of library of locked boxes.

The ones we open every day, sit on a shelf

at eye level, their keys clip to a carabiner at our waist, set the alarm, pack a gym bag, pick up milk

for the kids. But on the lower shelves and in the dusty back rooms, there's an ominous jumble

of odd-shaped containers. They hold the stories that don't fit so neatly into the skin we've

decided to live in. Maybe we've misplaced the keys, or maybe we've deliberately lost them.

My guest today keeps all the keys close at hand. In his stories and graphic novels, worlds collide,

and, as the fairy aerial puts it in Shakespeare's Tempest, they suffer a sea change into something rich and strange.

The walls of reality are permeable and dangerous magic is always seeping through.

Neil Gaiman is the author of the Sandman graphic novels, the graveyard book, Coraline, American Gods,

and many other wonderful things. His latest is a marvelous retelling of Norse mythology,

with most of the nasty bits left in. Welcome to think again, Neil. Thank you so much.

So I'm very glad to have you here, and I think it's probably just going to make sense if we clear the air right now

and say that I'm probably one of those many annoying fanboys that you meet all the time. I was obsessed with

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