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Delirium / Dream, The Sandman #43 (1992)
What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago? / There isn't one. / Oh. I thought maybe there was.
— The Sandman • 1989
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Delirium can describe the feeling with precision while language still fails to give it a name. Dream's short reply leaves the loss uncontained. The small disappointment belongs beside their larger search for someone who has left his old place in the family.
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In context
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Delirium asks Dream this question in The Sandman #43, part three of Brief Lives (1992). The siblings are travelling in search of their missing brother Destruction. Dream answers that there is no such word, and Delirium quietly accepts the absence. The three parts are an exchange between the two siblings, rather than a single speech.
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- The Sandman #43 — written source 1Brief Lives: 3; quotation and sceneReference checked
- The Sandman #43 — written source 2Brief Lives: 3; quotation and sceneReference checked
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