Chesterton. Gaiman

Alice Turner07 Nov 1998, 17:54original

From Wombat:

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The Gaiman fact is pretty well-established--there's a character in Sandman who is clearly Chesterton. (Gilbert, who features prominently in the second story arc, "A Doll's House", with occasional other appearances throughout the series, is physically and temperamentally very much modeled on Chesterton.) Or were you commenting on the delightful oddity of learning about Gaiman's fondness for Chesterton on a Borges site?

Well, hmmm, the second. I've never read a word of -Sandman-; I suppose I should. Though I cottoned to Gaiman right away as an interesting short story writer. That "Troll Bridge" (?) keeps coming back to me at the oddest moments. =alga

Kevin J. Maroney08 Nov 1998, 18:12original

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At 05:54 PM 11/7/98 -0500, alga wrote: Well, hmmm, the second. I've never read a word of -Sandman-; I suppose I should. Though I cottoned to Gaiman right away as an interesting short story writer. That "Troll Bridge" (?) keeps coming back to me at the oddest moments.

Well, I'm quite fond of Sandman. It's very easy to overpraise it, but there's some really first-rate work in it, especially in the scattered short stories. Wolfe is, by evidence, a reader of it, of course; he had a story in the Sandman prose collection a couple of years back. (One of his folk music stories--does anyone have a list of all of these?) Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

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