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Sometimes I think the art has Morpheus looking like Lou Reed, sometimes, especially in volume I, like Alice Cooper, sometimes like Joey Ramone. Other times like someone I have the thought that I know that face but just can't attach a name to it. He …
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A parallel I found interesting between this Volume and Volume III: In A Dream of a Thousand Cats the Cat Who Walks By Herself (a nod to Rudyard Kipling) tells the Gryphon outside of the Dream Cat's cave that " I am a cat and I k…
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What I make of Dream not considering using Hell to his own ends is that he's already got a domain over which he rules. Each of the suitors is seeking to regain his/her lost glory or to gain some that wasn't there to begin with. They have no dominion…
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Dashboard?
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Joi - nice find. Thank you.
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Excuse me - an error to correct. Purgatory. Remiel's plan turns Hell into Purgatory, not Limbo. It's still one thing too many. My fault for not reading the Divine Comedy and just relying on memory and vague understanding (and not being from the Chri…
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I have a couple (a few?) thoughts about the idea of punishment being a road to redemption or being done for the benefit of the person being punished.
First, if the damned are condemned to Hell as a means of redemption because Remiel thinks that… -
But never to be dismissed or trifled with.
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As I said elsewhere about my dreams: since we started the journey I've been dreaming more than previously, or at least more aware of how much I've been dreaming. As for "super weird," I don't know. As a psychoanalyst I don't think that many dreams a…
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A side note & not necessarily related: I can see the Empire State
Building from my window. It's normally dark after 2 A.M/ except for a
ring around the base of the spire. Both last night and tonight (&
perhaps tomorrow?) it… -
Great comments everyone! I'm loving all the nuance that everyone is pulling from & into the stories.
A big thank you to kirsten_ish for her observation that Lucifer doesn't just walk away but transfers the responsibility for hell to D… -
One more thing: How can something not have happened and yet still be true? That's not a tough riddle. Dreams. What happens to us in dreams (usually) doesn't happen and yet is true. The title of the play is "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" The character…
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This volume freaked me out so badly that I haven't really been able to write anything except that little posting about bezoars until now.
I felt incredibly sad at the end of Ranie's story, so much that I didn't want to read the script th… -
Fry dying of poison may well have been self-inflicted but most probably had something to do with his collection of bezoars. He tells Madoc that "It means counter-poison. Antidote...They can remedy poison...Edward IV survived the effects of a poisone…
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The encounter at the end between Dream & Desire reminds me of a scene towards the end of the movie "The Prophesy." Lucifer tells Gabriel that his (Gabriel's) war against heaven is wrong because "...it's arrogant. That makes it evil, which makes …
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Ooops. Change that. We're going to the movies (Grand Budapest Hotel) tomorrow. I'll catch the next round. Have a great time, y'all.
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It sounds like there's a full house already. If I can't sit at the table I'll take a seat as an alternate if that option is available.
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Yeah, I also didn't know what the Corinthian's eyes were. Compound eyes, some sort of fancy shades, no clue. It wasn't until I saw the panel about him biting his assailant's fingers off with his eyes that I began to suspect something was up and not …
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Back to questions about this volume of Sandman: Are the Endless subject to each other's domains/powers? We see from Nada's story that Morpheus (Dream) is subject to Desire. We also see by his behavior in captivity that he's not subject to Des…
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OTOH, to "tell on myself, it took me several days to get the gag about the Cereal Convention. I was looking for some deep meaning to the word "cereal" because the books have so much symbolism & mythology. I tried all sorts of things about breakf…