The first text Big A sent me this morning was about how Marjane Satrapi had died. Over the course of the day, I came to learn it was probably from a broken heart after losing her partner of thirty years last year.
Persepolis changed my mind about so many things... including the graphic novel genre. I always thought I'd meet her someday, and might have if she wasn't gone too soon.
This quote really says so much: “If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
And because of the pun in the title, I found myself muttering Persepolis, Pere c'est police (Father police) under my breath a lot.
Pic: Max and Huckie wonder about my muttering.
8 comments:
First of all, loving Huck's glamour photo. don't know Persepolis. It makes me think I should pick it up.
That quote is so apt and so very true.
Before a recent trip to Canada, all I could think of was how to convey TO EVERYONE THERE that I was not a supporter of the current administration. As it happened, it never came up. We were all just people enjoying our time together, whatever it was.
That is a sad loss. Never read the graphic novel, but the film was moving.
I loved her work, both book and film, and was so sad to hear that she had died. I thought of you, for some reason, wondering if you were a fan of her work. We have so much taste in common, it doesn’t surprise me.
Jeanie, this comment made me chortle. Huck does look very glam photo LOL
Nance, there's no way people wouldn't be able to tell how you were aligned within the first minute of meeting you. You're too brainy and classy for them not to.
I think I first picked up the book *because* the film was coming out...
<3 Doesn't surprise me at all! The book and film are so close. I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference between a panel from the book and a still from the film...
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