Winds Between Worlds

Alert readers notice intertextual parallels and links. Creative writers can forge new narratives from such links.

Manse Everard of the Time Patrol meets Sherlock Holmes. 

Holmes visits the inter-universal inn, the Old Phoenix. 

Nicholas van Rijn from the Technic History visits the Old Phoenix. 

Is it possible to pass from the Time Patrol timeline to the Technic History timeline via the Old Phoenix?

While writing The Sandman, Neil Gaiman decided that Cain and Abel (from the first story) now live in the Dreaming (the source of stories). Then he read in Genesis 4:17 that Cain had gone to dwell in the Land of Nod.

When did HG Wells' Time Traveller disappear to? Did he pass through a quantum fluctuation into the Time Patrol timeline? Was the young man in Mark 14: 51-52 a time traveller?

"Dagobert stayed unrestful, though; folk said that was the blood of his father in him, and that he heard the wind at the edge of the world forever calling."

-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 302-330, pp. 382-383.

(Dagobert's father is a time traveller and believed to be a god.)

"The wind that blows between the worlds chills me as I fall."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Preludes And Nocturnes (New York, 1995), p. 109, panel 2.

"There is a wind that blows between the worlds. A cold wind.

"It screams silently through the empty places, the nothing wind, traveling from nowhere to nowhere, in the uncreated wastes."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Season Of Mists (New York, 1992), p. 65, panel 1.

"...already the wind is dying back, signaling the transition from nowhere to WHERE."

-ibid., panel 4.

"The cold wind through me whistles the exhaustion out."

-"The Year of the Ransom," p. 710.

"Blomkvist turned the page and felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. It was as if a cold gust of wind passed through the room."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (London, 2008), CHAPTER 23, p. 387.

Connecting these last five texts, I imagine a cold wind blowing between worlds and past the edge of the world and passing through Wanda Tamberly and Mikael Blomkvist.