Ducks and Eggs ; Barks and Rosa

[Goofy313g@aol.com]

Barks certainly thought the Ducks came to life hatching from eggs, it makes 
no doubts for me.

Rosa doesn't think so at all, he thinks they come to life like mammals, or at 
least like humans 
(this makes me wonder : how can you feed your duck-baby when you have no 
nipples? :-) )
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, 
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.

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 
have thought or told in an interview, nor about Barks unpublished stuff such 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 
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 
stories, and so on... Barksist means at the same time lots of things and 
nothing (and so does "Donaldist", to me).

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...

Gilles

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