# Digest urth.v021.n010 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 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. --- ### Cristina López *09 Nov 1998, 21:44* The Chesterton-like character in Sandman is the Fiddler's Green, just in case you care about it. ---------- > De: urth-errors at lists.best.com > A: urth at lists.best.com > Asunto: Digest urth.v021.n010 > Fecha: lunes 9 de noviembre de 1998 0:10 > > > -------------- BEGIN urth.v021.n010 -------------- > > 001 - "Alice Turner" > URTH Digest -- for discussion of Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works > > > --------------- MESSAGE urth.v021.n010.1 --------------- > > From: "Alice Turner" > Subject: Chesterton. Gaiman > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:54:20 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> 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 > > > > --------------- END urth.v021.n010 --------------- works ---