Bonuscitat, från "Sandman: A hope in hell", av Neil Gaiman:
CHORONZON: I am a dire world, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.
MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.
CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.
MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.
CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.
MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy footed.
CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher, bacterium, warm-life destroying.
MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life nurturing.
CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating.
MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embracing.
CHORONZON: I am Anti-Life, the Beast of Judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds... of everything. Sss. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?
MORPHEUS: I am hope.
2 comments:
Hope is evil: it builds people up and leads them to disappointment. I avoid it whenever possible.
And as Choronzon's mortal concubine, I get it straight from the horse's mouth so to speak (and in my visions, he looks much better than Gaiman drew him, trust me!) if he were REALLY playing that game his answer to Dream would have been:
"I am Reality."
Reality always clobbers Hope.
Spes unica.
From my experiance it' reality that's a disappointment.
But then again, we're all different.
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