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1:52 AM

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Shokhet

@Gallifreyan Neat.

I think the second one is cute. Just make 999 more of those and you'll have "A Dream and a Thousand Cats" 😼

Hrm. Should we roll back the edits here to revision 4? ...just leave a comment?

...someone should leave a (polite!) comment regardless, explaining that he can [edit] his own posts, and that he doesn't need to label "Update" sections in the posts, because that's what the revision history is for.

@Gallifreyan ^^^

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Shokhet

4:26 AM

I don't think you need another ping, Gallifreyan ;-)

...I've started a collection of Sandman questions to ask when I've finished the series. I might have one to ask from A Game of You, but it is connected to one that I'm planning on asking later.

...basically, I want to know if a specific element of the story was influenced by reader response (if there was any). But that ties in to a bigger question, definitely for later, about Gaiman's writing-process, perhaps a question similar to literature.stackexchange.com/q/1917/481.

We've spoken before about how the stories are very much connected -- I wonder if elements (Barbie, for example, or Nada in Hell) were planted in earlier stories with the knowledge that they would be used later...or did it kinda just all fall together? (The stories might be read as a kind of trippy dream; maybe they were written that way as well?)

...but, obviously, that's a question to save for when I finish (or otherwise stop reading the books).

I guess I'm just annoyed that I won't be able to reference the general version of the question if/when I ask the smaller one, about audience influence on a specific piece of the story (after all, they did come out monthly)

Gallifreyan

5:32 AM

@Shokhet I think there was something about this in Companion.

Enigma Maitreya

6:09 AM

Did something happen to the normal chat room? (Mos Eisley)

Gallifreyan

@EnigmaMaitreya It got nuked :'(

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan Forever or is it being resuccitated

Gallifreyan

I don't know.

Enigma Maitreya

Oh, then was it deliberate?

Gallifreyan

What do you mean?

Enigma Maitreya

6:13 AM

Well two states, some one chose to take it down OR somthing happened and no one knows for sure

Gallifreyan

I don't know for sure what occurred in the room, but I know that Shog froze and deleted it, and verbally banned anyone from bringing it back.

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan Whoa so is this some what were people are going?

And what of the movie night I was kind of looking forward to Nausica(sp)

Gallifreyan

We'll organise that ;)

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan Well, heck maybe there will some change of heart and all things will be better in the morning (for me). Till then and thanks for the News (Bad as it may be).

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Bookworm

8:31 AM

Q: Do "The Sandman" and "Lucifer" deliberately share the number of issues?

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman ran for 75 issues; there was one "special" issue which told Orpheus' story, but it's not numbered. According to Neil Gaiman in The Sandman Companion, he was intending to end the series at some point, but it's not clear whether he intended the series to run for exactly 75...

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Feeds

1:14 PM

"One can never read the same book twice." Source found! #EdmundWilson https://literature.stackexchange.com/a/2517/481 https://t.co/cUPZa4Un8T

Tweeted by StackLiterature on May 12, 2017 at 12:45 PM

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Gallifreyan

6:42 PM

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1 min ago, by Gallifreyan

@Shokhet ^ Dream and Death through Delirium-vision (from Gaiman's blag - beware of spoilers!)

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Gallifreyan

7:47 PM

@Hamlet I've god Word of God on that Sandman/Gaiman question of yours, from Gaiman's Tumblr.

(I should've probably added that to my answer instead of posting it here, didn't I?)

Hamlet

8:09 PM

@Gallifreyan cool. I still think that the paper linked in one of the answers about Dream being a representation of Gaiman has merit, but until someone writes an answer about the arguments in that paper...

Gallifreyan

@Hamlet I used my super-cool university library access to download it. I'll get some free time after Monday, so I'll take a thorough look at it and share some insights here.

Hamlet

@Gallifreyan looking forward to it. Maybe post it as a separate answer, since it gives a different conclusion

Also, you've been doing a great job with these Sandman questions.

Gallifreyan

@Hamlet I don't think it's actually relevant. I've already covered in my answer that Gaiman acknowledged that there's a tiny bit of similarity in their characters, just so that Gaiman could understand Morpheus. You're asking about physical appearance, which was mostly left to artists, and they don't seem to have been inspired by Gaiman's looks.

That's what he looked like back in the day:

Hamlet

@Gallifreyan maybe I should ask a different question then. How to word it...

Gallifreyan

@Hamlet Thanks for that, I appreciate it ^_^

I was willing to write a lucifer and the-sandman guidance and wiki today, but the whole Mos affair got me sidetracked.

^ That's a nice picture I just saw in my new shiny Tumblr feed.

Looks like exactly the type of a generic picture we could use for a Twitter avatar/ad/whatever.

Gallifreyan

9:05 PM

Look at that: book-loving sleeping floofs

Catija

9:28 PM

I'm so cat starved... I want to snuggle them all.

Hamlet

9:43 PM

@Catija now I feel bad about pretending to ignore my cats when they ask to come inside so they stay outside more.

Catija

@Hamlet You should! Not everyone gets to have a cat. Some people have new babies and spouses who have allergies.

Hamlet

Jessica the Hippo Raised by Human Parents

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Catija

9:59 PM

I do like Hippos...

BESW

If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now.

Tweeted by jelenawoehr on May 11, 2017 at 4:49 AM

Catija

10:14 PM

HA HA. I'm assuming you've seen the cats knocking things off other things, including knocking other cats down stairs video?

BESW

10:29 PM

[grin] Of course.

....but I can't find a clip of Red Dwarf's Cat doing it.

user15026

@Gallifreyan My cat loves sleeping on my ereader. Which is a little less cute than this.

BESW

SOMEONE whose name I won't mention but who is tiny and tortie is making work difficult. https://t.co/KAzfdULgyy

Tweeted by UrsulaV on February 15, 2017 at 7:44 PM

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Bookworm

11:43 PM

Q: What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo + Juliet?

In the Act 1 Prologue to the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of thes...

william-shakespeare

SleepingGod

My question above is my first on the literature.stackexchange site and it's partially as a test to determine the scope of things covered in this StackExchange. Since their is currently nothing defined in the on-topic section of the Help center. I've made the following inferences:

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