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"Death was a little older than Dream. Things had the potential to die before they had the potential to dream."

The brilliance of this series resides in the fact that it can go anywhere and be almost anything. We all have dreams, and across the ages there has been a huge variety of hopes and wishes and visions of a better world.

And to capture the vastness of dreaming this volume takes on the form of a collection of short stories, each with a different dream and a different idea. Naturally, my favourite was the one that involved Dream’s older sister, Death. There's just something fascinating about the way Gaiman has envisioned her. She is so happy and welcoming which bespeaks the idea that all must meet her in the end. Even dreams die.

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."





The collection sits somewhat aside from the main Sandman story arc (if you can call it an arc) and it includes a real eclectic bunch of stories and characters. I just love seeing how the Endless interact with the world and the people in it because despite their immortality and their ever-influencing presence on man, they are still surprised by his actions. They don’t ever seem to fully understand that their existence depends on each other. Dream understands and I think Death does too, but the others are yet to get there.



So this was another strong volume in the series, I’m really looking forward to finally finishing it this year �� on to volume 7!

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