Dreams and delusions and eyeless agents [rambling]

[winter]

Mmm. Sleep deprivation means my subconscious is closer to the surface. It bubbles and murmurs in dark corners, throwing shapes and distracting me with lazy stabs of the blade of inspiration. I was looking for quotes, because I'm desperate for a title and a story.

"His madness... his madness keeps him sane."
- Delirium, "Three Novembers and a January", Sandman, Neil Gaiman.

It's not the one I'm looking for - but isn't it a fascinating concept? Someone who has gone past madness, past despair, past desire and out the other side. To a place where he holds on to an idea. A dream. He lives out his destiny, and deals out death. And hey, destruction is change, and change is freedom, and everything changes but nothing is truly lost.

Sheldon Jeffrey Sands, I'm looking at you.

Okay, dear, try and pull your thoughts together for a moment. See, that's my problem. I don't see Sands as crazy, or at least as the kind of raving lunatic, dancing in the pale moonlight crazy some fanon renditions would have me believe. Sure, good stories and all, and I enjoy them. But I just can't write him that way. Maybe it'd make my fics better, but somehow my Sands is outwardly strong as steel, even if he has collapsed inside (which depends on the version). He just doesn't give up, not even to himself.

Hm. Anybody care to try naming all the works quoted and paraphrased in this little delusional rant?

And if anyone can give me a good Sandman quote about the dangers of dreams, they win a virtual cookie and a fic dedication.

Comments

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

This is weird...because I was just reading that volume of The Sandman.

Good Sandman Quote for the dangers of dreams...hmm. I'm thinking:

"You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not find yourself when you wake up." from Brief Lives