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Originally posted by megs:
-Death ranting at Dream for being a sorry excuse for an anthropromorphic personification, in "Sound of her wings"

-the clothes Dream wears at the Hellfire Club when he's in a contest for his helm... *grin*

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After talking about X2 for the past week, i had this sudden vision of Dream as the White Queen... or Dream with the White Queen... or something. Ahhhhhhhhh!

See you, space cowboy.

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"Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased, and thus do we refute entropy."-- Spider Robinson

http://lon.blogspot.com -- Its a slightly less eloquent me.

Until Joel Schumacher directs Spider-Man 3, Make Mine Marvel!

There's this part in The Kindly Ones I'm currently reading, where Matthew, Lucien, Merv and Abudah hang out a bit. It's a good scene overall, but Merv takes the cookie with his line:
"Of course, tall, pale and interestin' still expects some of us to haul volcanoes about in this kinda weather."

Such a clichéed description of a guy, but it's Murphy in a nutshell.

Hmm.. Well, The Wake is weighty, and poignant in its tone and entireity.. (currently reading it) And yet, the moments of lightness in it.. Particularly when they need a name for the..person they have made out of mud, and Delirium suggests "Plippy ploppy cheesenose", and Death replies (in what I imagine is a deadpan way, no pun intended) "Mm. No. Try again." It is, I guess, all the more amusing in the context in which it takes place..
More later, perhaps..

If I wasn't so tired and could form a more coherent thought I would contribute, really. I haven't visited the board here for a long time but then when I pop up I just have to read and add my two cents all over the place, then vanish again. Life you know.

Anyway the images that are sticking in my head are in the wake when they are all walking across the sky or wherever it is in a funeral procession. The world is just put on hold and I can imagine this all encompassing silence like silence has never been.

Foggy.. sleeping, night!

In Doll's House, when Morpheus (being a bit of a dramatic poser it is true but who CARES?) saves Rose from Funland.

Season of Mists, Lucifer on the beach-- "Alright, I'll admit it. He's got a point. The sunsets are bloody marvelous, you old bastard."

Delirium in The Kindly Ones when she goes to the Lux nightclub... her hairdo, "following my fishee, because my fishee knows where to go...", how she threatens Mazikeen, and "You're the dedeedeeedeeevil"...

So many I can't think....

Dream: I do not want a grape.
Desire: I could *make* you want a grape.


Scary, no?

(note: this is my first post. don't hurt me.)

~this is cherrybrainfreezie

*waves his hand in front of cherry's face*

You will eat a grape.


(See? Isn't the Jedi way much easier?)

See you, space cowboy.

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"Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased, and thus do we refute entropy."-- Spider Robinson

http://lon.blogspot.com -- Its a slightly less eloquent me.

Until Joel Schumacher directs Spider-Man 3, Make Mine Marvel!

mmm... graaaaaapes...


Wha-oh. Huh... yeah. I think I'll have a... does anyone have any grapes?

~it is 5am and you are listening to los angeles~

the 3 panel strip in Kindly ones where lyta's child is gone, and you literally see Ltya coming apart...

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MA in Applied Sillyness
I am a bear of little brain.

the poster aka Murphy

in kindly ones,
when the gardner (forgot the name) of the Burgesses says to rose:
Don't want to go losing this again about
the lighter shaped like a heart....
of course, she lost her heart in Doll's house and that english guy broke her heart, the previuos issue and with desire there....you all know where this is goin

Morpheus to Orpehus: We shall not meet again
the end of Exiles
the first and last page of Men of Good fortune, the more things change the more they stay the same

Hmm.. Dredging this up again.. In Preludes and Nocturnes, the dream sequence where Alex Burgess follows a black cat up the stairs to where it jumps onto the great chair. Alex Burgess's shape blocks our view of the chair, and in the next panel it's Morpheus lounging there. It plays like a suspense movie thing..

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Apocalypses are always just around the corner. Words mean whatever you want them to mean.
-Signal to Noise, Neil Gaiman

the chocolate people's last moments in brief lives, hob gadling's lament about his life and then, when dream asks him if he wouldn't rather die, when he says "death's a mug's game," abel talking to irving/goldie at the end of part of preludes & nocturnes, telling him a story and saying "it's only blood, little brother, only blood," unity saying "nice place" and rose walker saying "yeah, he was a friend of mine" in the dolls house...and more...

"there's only color and light."
- sunday in the park with george

i have to agree with meanangel on the james marsters/corinthian thing.
bravo!

I also love Delirium threatening Makizeen in The Kindly Ones.

Wanda's snippy reply to Hazel in A Game of You (I may not have the wording quite right - this is from memory): "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to draw attention to a lady's shortcomings?"

I love the little girl on the airplane asking Morpheus why she can't remember how to fly when she wakes up. I loved that because I guess that's what I would have asked if I met the Lord of Dreams when I was little.

All of 'The Kindly Ones'
I was 16 and I found it at the library mixed in with cheap sci fi not fit to share the same shelves as anything Neil writes. I had never read any other comic in my life ( except Batman {who I still plan to marry})and I didn't know anything about Neil Gaiman or the Sandman (I didn't even know about Alan Moore if you can imagine). I didn't understand half of it and it was still the most amazing thing I had ever read. Still is.

P.S.At least if James Marsten plays the corintian he won't have to change his hair much from Spike.


We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise we would not be ourselves. -Dream The Kindly Ones.


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*****Perhaps the Bible is the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.*****

I don't have my copies with me and I'm not too good at remembering names so I don't know which volume this scene is in. It's more like one panel really, but it takes up the bottom half of the page. Dream is sitting on a chair in the Dreaming, in a huge dark hall. I think his head is in his hands... anyway- he's thinking about Orpheus and remembering his own words to him, he mutters, "So live..." Beautiful scene, so sad...

_tenebrae_


"All that we see or seem,
is but a dream within a dream." ~POE

All the before mentioned bits are great

My favourite is where in Brief Lives at the start Morpheus is all upset about Larrissa Leaving him

The way that at the top of each page you see him standing on the balcony in the rain, and each page you get closer until you can see the rain on his face and you can't tell if its rain or tears but it doesn't matter because the rain is metaphorical tears anyway (that bit always makes my stomach squirm in emotion, it characterises the way you feel after you lose love so well)

Yeah, that's a great sequence. heh, I never noticed Murphy is on the top of each page there.

At first I moaned about the way they drew his eyes, like shadowy spacious eyesockets instead of just shadowy space, but it seems to make sense with the context of the story. >_>

Also, I don't think he can cry. ;_;

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The Will to Help and The Will to Use is what separates good people from bad. I think.

[This message was edited by Iskall eld on August 05, 2003 at 02:50 AM.]

Also cool is Dream's line "Friends, my sister? I thought we were family."


And the scene with Bast and Dream in the dream of Bubastis. . . so romantic, and so tragic in the end. Poor Bast, almost dead, and so alone; and poor Dream, so bound by formality. ;_;

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The Will to Help and The Will to Use is what separates good people from bad. I think.

[This message was edited by Iskall eld on August 05, 2003 at 06:55 AM.]