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Here are my questions for Dream Country:
What do we make of the “Writers are liars” quote at the
beginning (and within "Calliope"), as it pertains to our discussions about the responsibility of an
author to his/her characters, and t…No math needed!! http://xkcd.com/1335/Oh man, thanks for the well-wishes, all! I truly didn't mean to derail this forum.
Svithrir: How did I never see that?? Dolly's house = doll's house. Mind = blown.Huh. Well, maybe it's just a coincidence, then. Dang, I liked my theory! But all theories must give way before evidence. Thought it might be helpful to post a link with info about one of the existing DC characters in this volume, Urainia Blackwell: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Urania_Blackwell_…"The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted." Morpheus, "A Midsummer Night's Dream""I would like to see anyone--prophet, king, or god--persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time." Dream of a Thousand CatsSvithrir: interesting! It's definitely green in my edition, and I'd always just assumed the connection to the Libyan glass was understood. Would love to find out for sure on that; can someone check an annotated edition?As to w…I'm in!A note on Nada's glass heart: it's not blue, it is green, and almost certainly a reference to Libyan desert glass, a very particular kind of meteorite glass: http://en.wikiped…Sounds good to me!Another thing I've been thinking: did Morpheus use Rose as bait to get the missing dreams back? He could have destroyed her once he found out she was the Vortex, but he says that the missing dreams (Brute, Glob, the Corinthian, and Fiddler's Green) …One thing I wonder, given the occasional themes of sacrifice in the book: what would have happened if Dream had asked for Lyta's child to be given to him, instead of just stating that he was going to take it? Spoiler: given Lyta's incredibly importa…Ah, ok, fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.Daniel: Gilbert didn't sacrifice his existence to save Rose. He offered to, but it could not be done. He did return to his original form of Fiddler's Green, but that was going to happen eventually regardless of what happened with Rose.I just thought of something. Nada's city and people are broken because she (at least in the story we hear) takes something she ought not have; the glass heart is all that is left. Unity saves her people (her family) by breaking her own heart (in the…To the question of why glass: actually, there is a Chesterton quote that I think will adequately express this, and it seems apropos to quote him. This is from Orthodoxy, chapter 4, "The Ethics of Elfland.""Cinderella re…@AK_Becky: I LOVE the Gladiator soundtrack! Lisa Gerrard's vocals on that are absolutely haunting.Maybe some Lisa Gerrard? Her voice is amazing.