Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman – The High Cost of Fantasy
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What Is the Greatest Mephos of the 21st Century?
I was asking my followers on Twitter, what is the greatest Mephos of the 21st century? And there's no little irony that one of the stories which I think has a great claim on being a true 21st century Mephos is Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. So I explore this idea in something like a 20 minute lecture. Now the lectures that I do for this course are scripted and I put in a very intense amount of research first and then writing. This lecture took me about actually about two weeks of my mornings, my mornings are my most creative time. It used to be a late night thinker. Now I'm an early morning thinker. Because of the nature
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