From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@crossover.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Chesterton
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 17:25:48 

At 04:35 PM 11/6/98 -0500, alga wrote:
>How interesting to read in that Borges site (for which, thanks) that both
>Neil Gaiman and Umberto Eco are fond of G.K. Chesterton.

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?

Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney@crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

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