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Scene from the library:

Patron: What's that on your necklace?

Me: It's a bat. It's based on an Edward Gorey illustration.

Patron: So...are you a Wiccan or something?

Me: ...no.

I'm still trying to puzzle out where that connection came from. I'm assuming it's some kind of Wiccan = witches = Halloween = bats, but I'm still sitting over here going, "Bzuh?"

(Of course then I had to explain that no, I just like creepy things/horror fiction/Edward Gorey*, which inevitably led to the patronizing "Oh, yeah, I used to read a lot of that stuff when I was a kid but I grew out it" conversation. I hate that conversation. It makes me want to hit people with my copy of Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural.**)

*Seriously, who doesn't like Edward Gorey?

**Because that sucker would hurt. It's a nice thick lump of a book.

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... I certainly haven't seen that connection before. O_o

That "grew out of it" comment always wants me want to reply, in tones of warm sympathy, "Yeah, it's really too bad when you lose your imagination prematurely, but a lot of people have shared your loss." I haven't done it yet, but once or twice I've come way too close.

Well, it's not a Christian symbol, and aren't the bats and witches both part of Halloween, which is totally the big Witch Holiday, so if you've got a bat, you must be a witch.

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