Talk:The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

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[edit] Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio reference

Neil Gaiman wrote on his blog in Dec. 25th, 2007 about this reference the following:

“

I learned from Wikipedia that Sandman:The Dream Hunters was actually based on Pu Songling's Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio, which I thought I ought to read. Will report back.

”

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjaroszewski (talk • contribs)

Oh dear. I feel mildly embarrassed - when I saw that claim, I looked up an e-text of the book but couldn't really find any obvious candidate, so I just slapped a citation-needed tag into the claim. I guess what I should've done was remove it entirely. --Gwern (contribs) 20:12 25 December 2007 (GMT)

You know, it's quite possible (given he was wrong about sourcing the work in Ozaki's book) that the source tale for Dream Hunters *is* actually in Songling. The last version of the article's text is probably appropriate and useful, and the article would probably benefit from its reinstatement. DrJon (talk) 21:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I didn't take the Ozaki thing as Gaiman being wrong, so much as it being just another example of his 'metafictional' techniques, if you follow me - all the claiming more antiquity, faux attributions, sly allusions, and other Borgesian japes that so often appear in his works. --Gwern (contribs) 00:49 26 December 2007 (GMT)

In order to make life more metafictional, I added Gaiman's statement about reading this article to the article. Makes you wonder what Borges would have thought about Wikipedia, doesn't it? Anville (talk) 23:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)