@missteriouswiss@prog_1211 imo HoL as an album doesnt fit this at all because the A Side is all amazing songs on their own, and the B Side is some of the best music ever but is made to be listened to as a complete story and shouldn't have one be singled out as "the Song"
@tlologn I agree but I think it still works because he isn't adapting any of the later books, so Dune 3 won't be a bridge to Children of Dune like book Messiah is. It seems like he's going all in on the idea of Messiah being the epilogue to Paul's story
@atlaz_chugged@chuncmoder Which is ironic because he spends the entire novel ruining his life for no reason, whereas she has "ruined" her life through prostitution in order to support her deeply impoverished family. Its one of the most famous books ever but that specific quote is often misunderstood
@atlaz_chugged@chuncmoder In this example its a reference (idk intentionally or not) to the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoevsky from the 1860s. When the protagonist, an axe-murderer, says to his girlfriend, a prostitute, that she has "destroyed and betrayed herself for nothing"--
@cuadaph@2666enjoyer Also the detail of the park and the city behind the carousel. Before getting to that last chapter I didn't really notice it but I think it kind of incapsulates the entire journey up to that point. His walking thru NYC and his prior life is put behind him as the story closes
I dont really care about his character outside of the Delano run (and the Bad Habits storyline). I'll read the rest of Hellblazer eventually but none of it (or any of his team up comics) seem nearly as interesting as what Delano was cooking, at least for me
@Tadz55 -being a highway. While legally the people driving backwards are in the wrong, thats only because the societal laws state that, its not a fact of life. But people driving their own way is going to cause crashes, because society sets up life in a rigid way (here just two paths)
@Tadz55 People are lost and going their own ways thru life, which is going to cause crashes because they aren't on the "right side of the road", which is arbitrary and doesnt have a set definition (ie, different countries have different road laws).
This ofc plays on the motif of life-