The Idea-smithy

Todd Faber, in SANDMAN: “Fear of Falling”

Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you.
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

(Image courtesy Osho-Zen Tarot)
I’ll take my chances.

I asked the Dreamcatcher if she had met Dream and she laughed and told me,
you shall be addicted
you shall not want to go out and meet people
you shall only want to sit and read sandman
my god if i could afford them, i would dance the dance of joy!
So if my words sound a little odd, [...]

From Sandman: Endless Nights
Most people want like a candle flame, flickering, wavering.
But you want like a forest fire.
Getting what you want and being happy are two very different things.
When there is nothing left to want, all you do is wait till there is nothing left to wait for.
And what when there is the world to [...]

De:Tales has a story that ends with,
He went towards the day, missing his ‘Boyfriend-in-love’ days.
It reminded him of a song he knew. “Without love, I’d be nothing.”
And the boy-nothing left the girl-nothing
with whom he’d had sex-nothing the previous night
and spent the rest of the day thinking about love-everything.
We’d rather be dead than bear the angst [...]

As I read a story about fairytale characters alive and well in New York
My childhood comes whispering back to me
And I remember once again, why my fanciful notions were set that way
For a minute I’m angry
Then, as I swim through the adventures of princesses and reformed bad boys
I realize how very like my own life [...]