From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cristina_L=F3pez?=" <lforum@arrakis.es>
Subject: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v021.n010
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:44:13 +0100

The Chesterton-like character in Sandman is the Fiddler's Green, just in
case you care about it.

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>     001 - "Alice Turner" <al@interp - Chesterton. Gaiman
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> From: "Alice Turner" <al@interport.net>
> Subject: Chesterton. Gaiman
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:54:20 -0500
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> >From Wombat:
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> >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?
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> 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
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