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KICKING_SAND

                                            June 25, 1993

                             SPOILERS
Sandman #52 in particular
reminded me of the Amber         This was one of the "World's End"
business:                        stories... it focused on Cluracan
                                 the elf, brother of Nuala.
riding on horseback on a
trail through alternate
universes;                                   WORLDS_END  
                                             

The long lived trickster, dimly
remembered as a historical figure      (whose character might
by the culture he's messing with...     be compared to
                                        Zelazny's Random)      (And in turn,
                                                                to Farmer's
                                                                 Kickaha.)

Being imprisoned and                                            MAKER
freed by a powerful
external agency.


        Then there's the business
        about sword fighting, but
        that's pretty standard
        genre fantasy crap.           I personally would like to
                                      see this flushed, by the
                                      way...

                                      Chasing after an idealized
                                      past that never was is
                                      really pathetic.


                                             The biggest disappointment for
                                             me about _Game of You_ was that
                                             it took the genre fantasy stuff
                                             so seriously.

                                             When he first introduced
                                             it in _The Doll's House_
                                             I thought it was a great
                                             put-down: "yeah an
                                             airhead that calls
                                             herself Barbie WOULD
                                             dream that kind of D&D
                                             fairy tale stuff"

One thing I liked about #52
was Cluracan's flash of
guilty annoyance at the end
when asked if he was going
to visit his sister.

When I read #52 I happened to
be stalling about writing a
letter to my own sister...


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