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Storyteller’s narration, The Sandman #9 (1989)
For love is no part of the dream-world. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
— The Sandman • 1989
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The storyteller's neat division of the Endless makes love dangerous rather than reassuring. Nada's story gives the warning consequences: wanting and being wanted do not protect a person from power. The sentence carries the tale's unease about the cost of a divine lover.
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The tale told in The Sandman #9, ‘Tales in the Sand’ (1989), recounts Nada's encounter with the lord of dreams. A storyteller passes the account to a younger listener in the desert. This sentence is part of the tale's narration, distinguishing love from the domain of Dream and associating it with Desire. It has no character speaking it in a present-tense conversation with Dream.
Sources (2)
- The Sandman #9 — written source 1Tales in the Sand; quotation and sceneReference checked
- The Sandman #9 — written source 2Tales in the Sand; quotation and sceneReference checked
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