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My questions may be spoilery, so I'm putting some of them in whitetext.Why the presence of G.K. Chesterton? Is it because he is also a creator of stories? He doesn't create any stories during the course of the volume, so…
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What responsibilities does a storyteller have to characters not his own? Gaiman makes brilliant use of many established (and in some cases, long-forgotten) DC characters.
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I'm in for WonderCon.
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Yay, Jared! You're here!
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That is a pretty awesome story!
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@cabridges I think this is my 3rd read-through of Sandman, so yes, I know.
in VOLUME I main discussion thread
Comment by Joi_the_Artist
February 2014
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@svithrir AUGH, I want so BADLY to talk about future books here, but, no, must not, not yet.The relationship between Dream and his siblings is centra…Cabridges, I like what you said here: "characters acted like people, not soap opera characters. They had higher highs and lower lows and if they made a choice, it mattered and it lasted." I think the idea of consequences is central to Sandman, thou…A thought I had during church this morning (probably not appropriate to be musing on Sandman during the service, but whatever):Upon his return, Abel addresses Morpheus as "Prince of Stories." This brought to mind two questions:…Decided to make a list of all the possible imprisonments in Volume 1. Here's what I have:
1. Dream, in Burgess' house.
2. Alexander Burgess, unable to escape his father's influence
3. Alexander Burgess, again, locked in constan…Oh, I just realized something! I can't say much without being spoilery, but it seems REALLY fitting that the first story should be about family turning on each other. Family spilling blood.Also, if they are the First Story, what does it say about humanity that our first story is the first murder?Also, Cain and Abel might have been the first story that humans would tell themselves. Adam and Eve, on a literal reading, wouldn't have known about their own creation, so it would have been God's story. But Cain could tell his own story to other hu…I think there's a difference between grabbing a mythic or archetypal figure and sticking them in a work as a shorthand for something, and weaving those stories and characters into something that takes them for what they are. Gaiman understands the p…What is the relationship between stories and dreams? John Dee tells his "stories" through the materioptikon, which makes dreams into physical reality. Is there a difference at all? Are stories just dreams that have been set down in a physical form?Oh, of course. Heh. Got kind of carried away there.
On that note, does an author have responsibility to his characters? It could be argued that Bette is every bit as manipulative of her characters. She forces them all into happy endings,…Oh, that's interesting! It's almost the reverse of Misery. After reading that book, I suddenly realized that in the back of their minds, every author probably looks at every fan and wonders if they're going to turn into Annie Wilkes. This is the rev…Right, and...dang it, there are other things I can't mention because they're spoilers for future books.
Is it coping mechanisms to deal specifically with Dream being imprisoned, or it is just how humanity deals with all change? Try to cl…Jack; I like your point! When Dream is locked away, does humanity create its own coping mechanisms to take the place of true dreams? If so, then why does Unity fall asleep; isn't that a coping mechanism?The first time I read Sandman, I almost didn't make it through Preludes and Nocturnes. I don't really like horror much, and some parts of the book really disturbed me (mostly the John Dee storyline, though Morpheus' vengeance on Alex Burgess also fe…