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The grandfather, The Sandman, #38 (1992)
You shouldn't trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
— The Sandman · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The grandfather separates the value of a story from the authority of the person telling it. His warning also unsettles his own position: the listener must judge what she has heard. In a comic full of stories within stories, that makes attentive reading part of the adventure.
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In context
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A grandfather tells his granddaughter a story in The Sandman #38, ‘The Hunt’ (1992). Their conversation frames a tale of Vassily, a young man whose journey involves a princess, strange encounters and his own identity. This advice belongs to the grandfather in that framing scene. The line asks the listener to attend to the tale even when its teller is open to question.
Sources (2)
- The Sandman #38 — written source 1The Hunt; quotation and sceneReference checked
- The Sandman #38 — written source 2The Hunt; quotation and sceneReference checked
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