I havent read a whole lot of sandman(a problem i am currently trying to remedy), but I was curious about something. The book Endless Nights has left me wondering a couple things about Delight/Delirium.

In the story Sandman, Dream's girlfriend or what ever meets delight, cute little estatic kid who seems like she ate to much sugar.

In the Delirium book, she was hurt and went 'to deep inside herself', and those people(the nut jobs, homeless people and hookers and what ever else) brought her out.

In Destiny, her portrait is covered by a sheet, I guess she was still "in herself to much" or what ever.

In Destruction they talk about her "feeling better", but here, she is a couple years older,what 15 years or so old looking.

So my question is, what happened to her? Any specific stories i could read that talk about it?

Nope, there's nothing that specifically spells it out, although Neil has said that if he writes any serious Sandman stories again, it will be to tell the story of how Delight became Delerium. I wonder now if he wasn't tossing the concepts around in his head all through Endless Nights, sort of edging around the situation.

I think he should. Deliriums chapter in endless nights was myfavorite. Bill whateveryouspellit did amazing work.

I wonder if they all have some sort of realisation / transformation. Delight to Delerium is hinted at (I suspect it is something to do with delight leading you to be fascinated with the world and too much fascination leads to too much knowledge and too much knowledge leads to an inability to cope. If you're delighted by everything, then you can't screen out the important from the barrage of sensory perceptions)

Destruction quits his job and goes off to be Creative. Painting, making bad poetry etc.

Dream - well, the whole 70 odd issues are about Dream learning that he needs to change and realising that he can't do it, so he has to engineer a situation where he can be replaced.

Despair - an interesting one, Neil wrote about our Despair being Mark Two, but when he shows us Mark One, she is almost the same. (If there are differences, they are too subtle for me)

And Death in Endless Nights is very, very different to our Death - grim, austere, almost your classical death personification. Something happens along the way - perhaps in handling death she somehow came to appreciate life.

(There's a lot of these coins have two sides references in Brief Lives - we all meet Death twice, Neil says. Birth and Death. Creation and Destruction. Hope and Despair. Hate and Desire. Dream and ...reality?)

Andrew, where does Destiny fit into this...'Ah, we all have many Destinies' is the answer I expect. Will you oblige?

I am very curious about Delirium/Delight myself. I was hoping that it would be explained in the later Sandman books (I'm only up to number three). But I gather it's not, huh? Sigh.

Eldi -- it is actually Destruction's portrait that is covered in the Destiny chapter of "Endless Nights." You'll notice that, in Destiny's garden, his statue's back is turned, as well.

The first Despair was covered in red swirls that looked like tatoos. Esentially, new Endless are color swaps of their predicessors.
I just really like how Despair is suggesting the story of Superman in that comic.