![]() Brief Lives is at least half his story.Įvery one of the Endless defines its opposite. When the kids get together, is there any wonder that fights break out? And Delirium, poor tormented Delirium, has the attention span of a toddler, speaks in non-sequiturs and delivers the most profound of truths. Despair is incredibly sensitive and insecure, while the androgynous Desire is the closest thing this work has to a villain-selfish, proud, powerful, petty, vain. The restoration of his realm takes up a good bit of the action in the first half of the cycle. Dream takes himself far too seriously-he’s all about rules and responsibility in fact, in Preludes and Nocturnes, once he’s accomplished his quest, he’s adrift and depressed until Death reminds him that he has his job to do. Death is wise and warm she’s the one who is most aware of and least affected by the family dysfunction. Destiny is dour and humorless, the ultimate eldest sibling, heavy on responsibility and dismissive of the antics of the younger kids. If you can envision eternity, you can envision the Endless.Īnd yet, they also function as a family. ![]() ![]() ![]() They predate humans, they predate gods, and they’ll be around long after both humans and gods are memories. His family of the Endless depict concepts that exist as allegorical constructs, “wave patterns,” as the prodigal sibling puts it. Gaiman doesn’t dumb down his material, and he doesn’t provide a reader’s guide. ![]()
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