{"id":3108,"date":"2012-08-22T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:57:49","slug":"sandman-vol-1-preludes-and-nocturnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3108","title":{"rendered":"Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/sandman.php\">Sandman<\/a> Vol 1: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ip7Yow\">Preludes and Nocturnes<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gaiman.php\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ip7Yow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/Sandman-Preludes-Nocturnes.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8000\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to reread Sandman right now. Sandman makes me cry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. So, just finished rereading volume 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Death is before me today:<br \/>\nlike the recovery of a sick man,<br \/>\nlike going forth into a garden after sickness.<br \/>\nDeath is before me today:<br \/>\nlike the odor of myrrh,<br \/>\nlike sitting under a sail in a good wind.<br \/>\nDeath is before me today:<br \/>\nlike the course of a stream;<br \/>\nlike the return of a man from the war-galley to his house.<br \/>\nDeath is before me today:<br \/>\nlike the home that a man longs to see,<br \/>\nafter years spent as a captive.<br \/>\n     &#8211;From &#8220;Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Soul&#8221; (ca 2000 BC)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably my least favorite volume of the series, and yet, I still get something out of it.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Vertigo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to reread Sandman right now. Sandman makes me cry.&#8221; Yeah. So, just finished rereading volume 1. Death is before me today: like the recovery of a sick man, like going forth into a garden after sickness. Death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,291],"tags":[76,77,522],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-sandman","tag-vertigo-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-O8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/124","url_meta":{"origin":3108,"position":0},"title":"The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes","author":"Michelle","date":"September 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (1989) Neil Gaiman The first volume in the Sandman series, Preludes and Nocturnes tells of Dreams capture by Roderick Burgess, his eventual escape, and his recovery of his bag of sand, his mask, and his ruby. 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