Alianora to Holger:
"'All folk know the Pharisees canna endure broad daylight, so 'tis forever twilit in their realm.'" (p. 37)
Queen Titania to Hamnet Shakespeare:
"There is no night in my land, pretty boy, and it is forever summer's twilight."
-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Dream Country (New York, 1995), p. 78, panel 7.
The first denies day, the second denies night, both affirm twilight.
When Timothy Hunter asks Titania whether her palace is far, she replies:
"It is as close as the harvest moon in the evening sky, as distant as a dream on wakening; near as a rainbow, and so remote you could walk for ever and never reach it.
"Is it far?
"No, Timothy. Not far." (Pointing at the palace.)
-Neil Gaiman, The Books Of Magic, Book III, The Land Of Summer's Twilight (New York, 1991), p. 33, panels 4-5; p. 34, panel 1.
Anderson and Gaiman! When I finish blogging this evening, I will return to The Sandman.
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Elves were "mysterious" and arcane.
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