<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1">Barks certainly thought the Ducks came to life hatching from eggs, it makes no doubts for me.<BR>
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Rosa doesn't think so at all, he thinks they come to life like mammals, or at least like humans <BR>
(this makes me wonder : how can you feed your duck-baby when you have no nipples? :-) )<BR>
He sees the reference to eggs in Barks' Fountain of Youth story as a *joke*, which would also be a possible explanation, as in this story, <BR>
nothing tells us that the Ducks were really actually born in eggs. But in Barks' mind, it sure didn't happen like this at all.<BR>
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That does not make Rosa not being a Barksist : you can be a Barksist who only cares about *published stuff*, not about what Barks could <BR>
have thought or told in an interview, nor about Barks unpublished stuff such as his Duck Family Tree for instance (I've got at least two trees made with a donaldistic spirit, but with Scrooge and Grandma being siblings), you can be a Barksist who cares about all the stuff that came from Barks, you <BR>
can be a Barksist who cares about all of his stories, you can be a Barksist who only cares about Barks-written stories, or only Barks-arted <BR>
stories, and so on... Barksist means at the same time lots of things and nothing (and so does "Donaldist", to me).<BR>
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This little difference between Barks and Rosa's points of view should make some people here realize that Rosa's Duck universe shouldn't be considered as a continuation of Barks' Duck universe, but as an *interpretation* of it...<BR>
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Gilles<BR>
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