![]() ![]() Later in the book, Dream has an encounter with Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. Even if you believe in the doctrine of reincarnation, the fact remains that for this incarnation, you only have a lifetime. We all have exactly the same amount of time on this plane-one lifetime. We are prone to compare our lifespan with others, but time is really just an illusion. You got a lifetime.”ĭeath’s answer is sobering. He asks Death whether he had a long life, and Death responds: ![]() But if we accept that we are a reflection of the divine, and our lives are temporary, then it stands to reason that divine existence is also temporary, with a beginning and an end, as part of a cycle that is beyond our ability to understand.Įarly in the book, Death comes to claim a man who lived an unusually long life. We all accept the ephemeral nature of human existence, but do not want to believe that gods and the universe are also transitory. In this installment in the Sandman saga, Neil Gaiman explores the brevity and impermanence of existence, both human and divine. ![]()
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