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The Sandman #5: Passengers
“So go my little love. Touch the world. Eat their hearts and poison their dreams. Rip their nightmares into the daylight and scum their sleep with creeping fear.”
Neil Gaiman
The Sandman
Preludes And Nocturnes
The Sandman #2: Imperfect Hosts
“Don't be a moronic lump of blubbering, quaking, pathetic lard.”
Neil Gaiman
Insult
The Sandman
Preludes And Nocturnes
The Wake Up
“The sandpaper of Greg's laugh fascinated Lexi as much as it frightened her. It was why she always thought of him as the Sandman, an interpretation not as sinister as E. T. A. Hoffman's but one that seemed to match, suddenly, in its role as a harbinger of death. Greg's voice rebounded around the building, dry and abrasive. Mirthless laughter is one of mankind's trademark noises. It's been used to mask pain for centuries.”
Death
Mankind
Laughter
Fantasy
Sandman
Dystopian Fiction
Dark Fantasy
Angels And Demons
Mirthless
The Sandman Companion
“A major defining factor was my wanting him to be part of the DC Universe. Because if someone as powerful as the Sandman was running all the dreams in the world, a natural question would be “Why haven’t we heard about him by now?”
The answer I came up with was “He’s been locked away.” And that solution formed an image in my head of a naked man in a glass cell.
My next question was “How long had he been trapped there?” The movie
Awakenings
hadn’t been made yet, but I’d read Oliver Sacks’s book a few months earlier, so I knew about the encephalitis lethargica, or “sleepy sickness,” that had swept Europe in 1916. Scientists to this day don’t understand what caused it, and I loved the idea of blaming it on the Sandman’s imprisonment, so I determined the length of his stay to be seventy-two years—ending in late 1988, when the series debuted.
And so on; each plot point just seemed to naturally lead to the next one.”
Neil Gaiman
Beginnings
Sandman
Interview
Sleepy Sickness
The Sandman Companion
“I did Barbie’s dream as a one-off thing, but I found it haunting me; I kept having an image in my head of Martin Tenbones getting killed in real New York.
Still, that would’ve been the end of it...except, by a wild coincidence, a short time later I received a postcard from Jonathan Carroll. He wrote that he’d been following my graphic novel
Signal to Noise
—which was being serialized in
The Face
magazine at the time—and he was finding a number of very scary similarities between my story and his as yet unpublished novel,
A Child Across the Sky
. He concluded, “We’re like two radio sets tuned to the same goofy channel.”
I wrote back and said, “I think you’re right. What’s more, I abandoned a whole storyline after reading
Bones of the Moon
, but I keep thinking I ought to return to it.” Jonathan then sent me a wonderful letter with this advice: “Go to it, man. Ezra Pound said that every story has already been written. The purpose of a good writer is to write it new. I would very much like to see a Gaiman approach to that kind of story.” With that encouragement, I began creating
A Game of You
.”
Writing
Neil Gaiman
Radio
Interview
Ezra Pound
Jonathan Carroll
The Sandman Companion
“Gaiman provides some additional insights via these comments in his script for chapter 5: “What I want to do here, without destroying the story as an adventure yarn, is grab the subtext and make it text, grab the metaphor and make it text; allow that we’re spinning a metafiction and see how far we can push that fact before it collapses in on itself. Which is going to be hard; good fantasy is as delicate as butterfly wings, and just as liable to crumble if improperly handled, leaving you with something that can no longer fly.”
Fantasy
Neil Gaiman
Fly
Crumble
Butterfly Wings
Good Fantasy
The Sandman Companion
“
HB:
Given all the theologies you were dealing with, did you receive any outraged letters?
NG:
I did; but most of them were from comics fans who felt I was creating cruel parodies of the Marvel Comics characters Thor, Loki, and Odin. [
Laughter.
] At the same time, I received quite a few letters from readers in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden who thanked me for portraying Norse gods accurately.
All I really did was follow the actual legends. In Norse mythology, Thor is enormously strong, bearded, and overmuscled; and he’s also quite stupid, and is easily made drunk. And if you rub his hammer, it really
does
get bigger. [
Laughter.
] The legends also strongly imply that Thor’s wife is bonking Loki on the side.”
Neil Gaiman
Interview
Legends
Norse Mythology
Norse Legends
The Sandman #45: Brief Lives Part 5
“I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped and loved, and take power to ourselves.
And then, one day, there's no one left to worship us.
And in the end, each little God and Goddess takes its last journey back into Dreams... and what comes after, not even WE know.
I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid.”
Dreams
Sandman
Gods
Ishtar
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Across the street from the bed-and-breakfast, I open a small café where residents can sip cocoa lattes, eat raspberry tarts baked in Valentine's Town, and savor orange whipped toffees that Helgamine and Zeldaborn complain get stuck in their few remaining teeth--yet they keep coming back for more. Wolfman and Behemoth sit together every afternoon sharing a pot of black rose tea, delicately holding their cups between clawed and too-large fingertips, nibbling on coconut macaroons. I even sell my sleeping tonic at the café--in a much milder dose than what I brew for the Sandman, who still stops by for a refill now and then--in scents of lavender and chamomile, herbs harvested from Dream Town.”
Cafe
Imported
Pastries
Sally
Halloween Town
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”
Dream
Morpheus
The Sandman
The Endless
Vertigo Comics
Scrape
“His dad's eyes were getting darker. "How bad is it really?"
Very bad. Too many fronts to fight.
Bur for starters...
"That big storm out east?" Jordan and Rook had gone to investigate... "That's the Sandman in the waking world."
His dad frowned deeply. He shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know what that means."
Yeah, well... "Neither do we.”
Paranormal
Sandman
Nightmares
The Sandman Companion
“I’ve obviously spent a lot of time thinking about myth and religion. I’ve also spent time with things like
The Skeptical Inquirer
magazine, and Carl Sagan’s book
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
; but while I was reading them, I was thinking, “Yes, yes, yes; but don’t you need to maintain a core of solid, rock-hard belief to be an atheist in this world?” [
Laughter.
] I think what I really like is the idea of belief itself.”
Religion
Belief
Atheism
Carl Sagan
Neil Gaiman
Myth
Interview
The Sandman Companion
“…there was a generation in the U.K. who’d grown up reading DC comics from a bizarre perspective. In America, those comics were perceived without irony; in England, they were like postcards from another world. The idea of a place that looked like New York, the idea of fire hydrants and pizzerias, was just as strange to us as the idea that anyone would wear a cape and fly over them.”
America
Perspective
Neil Gaiman
Comics
Uk
The Sandman Companion
“Once, while at a party in London, the editor of the literary reviews page of a major newspaper struck up a conversation with me, and we chatted pleasantly until he asked what I did for a living. “I write comics,” I said; and I watched the editor’s interest instantly drain away, as if he suddenly realized he was speaking to someone beneath his nose.
Just to be polite, he followed up by inquiring, “Oh, yes? Which comics have you written?” So I mentioned a few titles, which he nodded at perfunctorily; and I concluded, “I also did this thing called
Sandman
.” At that point he became excited and said, “Hang on, I know who you are. You’re Neil Gaiman!” I admitted that I was. “My God, man, you don’t write comics,” he said. “You write graphic novels!”
He meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who’d been informed that she wasn’t actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening.
This editor had obviously heard positive things about
Sandman
; but he was so stuck on the idea that comics are juvenile he couldn’t deal with something good being done as a comic book. He needed to put
Sandman
in a box to make it respectable.”
Neil Gaiman
Respectable
Positive
Comics
Hooker
The Sandman N.6
“You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life.”
Death
Grief
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more dangerous...”
Reason
Logic
Dream
Thinking
Myth
Instinct
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
“Oh. I didn't know you could stop being a god.
You can stop being anything.”
Choices
Decisions
Fate
Careers
The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
Dreams
Hope
Despair
Sandman
The Sandman #40: The Parliament of Rooks
“I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation”
Sandman
The Demesne of the Swans
“— Где лебеди? — А лебеди ушли.
— А во́роны? — А во́роны — остались.
— Куда ушли? — Куда и журавли.
— Зачем ушли? — Чтоб крылья не достались.
— А папа где? — Спи, спи, за нами Сон,
Сон на степном коне сейчас приедет.
— Куда возьмет? — На лебединый Дон.
Там у меня — ты знаешь? — белый лебедь…
- Where are the swans? - They went away, the swans.
- The ravens too? - They stayed behind, the ravens.
- Where did they go? - There where the cranes have gone.
- Why did they go? - For fear their wings be taken.
- And where's papa? - Sleep, sleep, the Sandman on
His steppe-steed will be here now very shortly.
- Where will he take us? - to the swanly Don.
There - fancy! - I've a white swan waiting for me...”
Poetry
Russian
Russian Verse
The Sandman: Overture
“Destiny sees things as they are, not as we would wish them to be. He knows there are no stories, only the illusion of stories: threads and patterns that seem to appear in the pages of existence given meaning and significance by the observer. Destiny observes worlds and molecules like motes of dust hanging in a sunbeam: every movement, every moment inevitable. Destiny walks the paths of his garden, a place of forks and paths which combine and part, seeing only what is. He is surprised by nothing. There is nothing that can surprise him, nothing that was not already written in his book.”
Destiny
The Sandman Presents: The Furies
“I'm not going to heal. Not if healing means shrugging your shoulders and saying 'Life goes on'. Life doesn't go on.”
Life
Healing
Sandman
The Sandman: Endless Nights
“And in our room, we made love like flames–opening, blending, burning. We made love like animals, like gods, like dreams. Was it worth waiting for? Gods, yes. It was worth worlds, that night, worth souls, worth eternity.”
Love
Sex
Desire
The Sandman: Endless Nights
“Her eyes are grey. Her hair is straggly and wet. Her fingers are stubby. The nails are chewed and broken. Her teeth are crooked, jagged things. There is a vacancy in her gaze, a feeling of absence when you are near her that is impossible to put into words. Her sigil is the hooked ring. One day her hook will catch your heart. Describing her, we articulate what she is and why she is: when hope is past, she is there. She is in a thousand thousand waiting rooms and empty streets, in grey concrete buildings and anonymous hotels. She is on the other side of every mirror. When the eyes that look back at you know you too well, and no longer care for what they see, they are her eyes. She stands and waits, and in her posture the pain no longer tells you to live, and in her presence joy is unimaginable.”
Despair
The Sandman
“No one could blame her if she was running a little low on the sugar and spice and everything nice.”
Paranormal
Urban Fantasy
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