title: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth
author:  Stephen Rauch 
description: Good, readable and intelligent...You could probably teach a pretty good SANDMAN class using just that and [Bender's] Sandman Companion. -- <i>Neil Gaiman's online journal (NeilGaiman.com), March 9, 2003</i>
zlib_text: James Alan Gardner
   Trapped
    
   To the writers of the Wooden Whale
  And to friend and former roommate Larry Hackman, who gave me the gloomy
  tag-line
    
   And, looking back at what had promised to be our own unique, unpredictable, and dangerous
  adventure, all we find in the end is such a series of standard metamorphoses as men and women have
  undergone in every quarter of the world, in all recorded centuries, and under every odd disguise of
  civilization.
   —Joseph Campbell,The Hero with a Thousand Faces
    
   Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
   —Herman Melville,Moby Dick
    
   (Yes, Mr. Melville, I would. A cataract of sand, especially one the size of Niagara Falls, would be
  mind-bogglingly cool.)
    
   The best is the enemy of the good.
   —Voltaire
    
   Acknowledgments
   Thanks to Khalid Shaukat for calculating the Islamic date. Thanks to A. A. Milne for Zunctweed.
  Thanks to Howard Gardner (no relation) for his theory of multiple intelligences, refl