# Chesterton. Gaiman *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Nov 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *07 Nov 1998, 17:54* From Wombat: > 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. Maroney *08 Nov 1998, 18:12 · follows Alice Turner* > 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 ---