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A Vision in a Dream

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oil pastel on watercolour paper, which is why they look pockmarked. hopefully a good, larger version on masonite board is forthcoming.

A double tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Delirium by Neil Gaiman.

From Seasons of Mists (Sandman Vol 4):

"Delirium is the youngest of the endless. She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, old leather.

"Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not made to comprehend her domain, and those few who ave made the journey are incapable of reporting back more than the tiniest fragments.

"The poet Coleridge claimed to have known her intimately, but the man was an inveterate liar, and in this, as in so much, we must doubt his word."

having studied Coleridge last year, I have to say that he might not be lying. he wrote his poem "Kubla Khan" supposedly on a bout of opium-induced delirium, saying of the poem: "Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him."

given to him? I wonder by whom.
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HopelessBeliever's avatar
Nice work, I like how her hair seems to envelop him