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Congrats Neil!
“I don’t think I’ve ever said there were no rules. I’ve definitely said that you can do a lot of interesting things by breaking them, and also by not knowing them. But overall, I tend to believe something that my old elocution teacher, Miss Webster, used to say, whenever I’d done what I considered a particularly interesting reading of something, which was, ‘Neil dear, please remember that before you can be properly eccentric, you must know where the circle is.’”
-Neil Gaiman, 2004
“Justice? Justice is a delusion you will not find on this or any other sphere. And wisdom? Wisdom is no part of dreams. Lithe Walker, though dreams are a part of the sum of each life’s experiences, which is the only wisdom that matters. But revelation? That is the province of dream.”
-Neil Gaiman, “A Dream of a Thousand Cats”
“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the Devil his due.”
-Neil Gaiman, “Season of Mists”
It’s no secret that Neil Gaiman is my favorite author. I recently picked up the second volume of the Absolute Sandman. I’m reading through them at night before I go to sleep. It’s interesting how much more I get out of them now that I’m older compared to when I read them in college.
A college friend introduced me to Sandman. I had no idea at the time, of course, as I was sheltered as a kid, that comics could contain such material. Like so many others, I was used to the super hero genre, and I never got into comics as a kid. Sandman changed me in ways I’m still finding it hard to express.
As I prepare for this chaotic year, I look back into Sandman as I prepare myself for the year to come.
