The Sandman, ultimately, is about family.Do you mean Brief Lives, or the entire series? Because it's a little bit dangerous to decide what it's all ultimately about when you've got a third of the series left.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
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Strega - May 04, 2006 4:50:08 am PDT #9451 of 10000
Steph L. - May 04, 2006 5:10:24 am PDT #9452 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
This is a job for Super!Teppy!
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Frankenbuddha - May 04, 2006 5:15:29 am PDT #9453 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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sj - May 04, 2006 5:21:20 am PDT #9454 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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Sean K - May 04, 2006 5:35:41 am PDT #9455 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I saw it more of a reaction to what he talks about at the end, the fact that the Endless are really just anthropomorphs cooked up by humanity, and a focus on reason threatens their relevance. It's as if he quit so that he wouldn't be fired.
Also, I would say there's a large degree of Destruction having his job taken over by the scientific advances in warfare. Think of Oppenheimer's chosen quote after the first detonation -- "I am become Death, devourer of worlds."
Okay, so the quote mentions the wrong Endless, but the point remains. It's not just that Destruction would have been fired, humanity as a whole was (*is*) trying to become Destruction.
Why did Delight turn into Delirium?
Delight became Delirium because of some huge but unnamed change in the world, or in mortals at any rate
You don't see it? Consumerism. Among other things. We humans (as represented by the "advanced" Western-world-living among us, anyway) stopped taking joy and delight in that which was joyful and delightful in the world, and instead started chasing pleasure for its own sake, demanding more and more, and ever more again.
When that happened (or as it happened, it's not like it was a discrete event), we went insane and entered a delirium from which we never returned, and propably never will.
Dana - May 04, 2006 5:54:51 am PDT #9456 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Given how long ago Delight became Delirium, I'm not sure I buy that consumerism was the cause.
Sean K - May 04, 2006 6:00:02 am PDT #9457 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Given how long ago Delight became Delirium, I'm not sure I buy that consumerism was the cause.
Your memory is working better than mine. How long ago did it happen?
And even though I singled out consumerism, I do think it was really more a whole series of events that mutated us and her, and consumerism is just bound up in all that, but you may wind up deflating my theory right here.
Dana - May 04, 2006 6:12:07 am PDT #9458 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I don't think it's ever been specified, but I always thought it was ages and ages and ages ago.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2006 6:29:47 am PDT #9459 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm pretty sure she's appeared as Delirium in stories set in ancient Greece. In fact, the only story I can recall wherein she appeared as Delight was set before organic life developed on earth.
Sean K - May 04, 2006 6:41:36 am PDT #9460 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
In fact, the only story I can recall wherein she appeared as Delight was set before organic life developed on earth.
Shoots my idea all to hell. I'd then submit that we've been insane from the beginning, and we're what drove Delight 'round the bend.