One Perfect Endless Moment - #1 Dream

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From Sandman #64 comes this two page sample of a "Week in the life being" of Morpheus, the Oneiromancer, the Prince of Stories, also known as the Sandman...

To me this highlights the true nature of Dream; strange, alien, arrogant, a touch pretentious and (and this is the important part) neither necessarily a nice being, nor always on our side. (Compare and contrast with how Death is presented, and she's next in the series of these I have planned)





I just love the way Gaiman can throw enough ideas out in two pages to keep a short story writer dribbling happily for months (I was tempted to use as my moment the scene where Dream curses a writer with a madness inducing, neverending stream of imaginative stories, as punishment for kidnapping the muse Calliope, but I thought I'd keep use this one because it's not as well known.) And little things like the pilot of the boat being an Easter Island statue with a body.

Comments

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

The boy in Hong Kong? The reincarnation of Dream's first human lover.

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And the three bodied nightmare is one we saw him sculpting in the first part of "Dolls House" story, nice to know it went on to a successful career! :)

[meatwhichdreams.insanejournal.com]

Ahh....they grow up so fast! ~snifff~

I always got happy horrible shivers from their carved out faces. :D What cuties!

[meatwhichdreams.insanejournal.com]

Damn, I always forget that! Thanks for reminding me. :L I love that feeling when you rediscover another little nuance Gaiman has sewn into the story - it's not necessary that that little boy is Nuala for the point of the passage to get across, and yet...