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What is this? Remember it, from the end pages of Endless Nights?
 
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Chances are, it's Neil's invention. I'm guess it's related to the ghostly black dogs that show up on the estates of certain British families, presaging a death in the family.


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It's Puck's final speech from A Midsummer Night's Dream, a Shakespearean play; in it, Puck is effectively talking to the audience about what they have watched. From memory, the whole thing goes like this:

If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
Whilst these visions did appear
And this weak and idle theme
No more yielding; but a dream.
Gentles, do not reprehend
If you pardon, we will mend
And as I am an honest Puck
If we have unearned luck
Now to scape the serpent's tongue
We will make amends ere long
Or else the Puck a liar call-
And so Good Night unto you all
Give me your hand if we be friends
And Robin shall restore amends.
 
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I believe he's asking what the Brotherhood of the Black Dog is, and the Midsummer Night's speech is his sig, but that is a fabulous rendering from memory.


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Yes, Dweller In Darkness. And I am a she, by the way. Wink
 
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Hi. Here in the UK the term "black dog" is sometimes used as a euphemism for depression. I'm only speculatng here but wondr whether the fact that the term is used of Barron Storrey and that he worked on the Despair story in Endless Nights is Gaiman's way of saying Storrey is suffers from depression. I may be wildly off beam here but as a sufferer myself can identify with the storyline.

All the best.
 
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