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	Neil Gaiman Quotes, page 1 of 11
		Hob Gadling, in SANDMAN #13: "Men of Good Fortune"
		Her kind walk amidst the flotsam of lives they have sacrificed, for their own purposes, till friendless and alone they needs must make the final sacrifice.
		Hob Gadling and Dream, in SANDMAN #13: "Men of Good Fortune"
	www.amk.ca /quotations/neil-gaiman (1466 words)

	The Doll's House
		The strains in the relationships among Morpheus' odd family - known as the Endless, and consisting of Destiny, Death, Destruction, Dream (Morpheus), Desire, Despair and Delirium - form a major part of the series, and this attempt by Desire to sabotage Morpheus' affairs is the first obvious demonstration of these family troubles.
		The collection also introduces Hob Gadling, whom we first meet in a tavern at the end of the fourteenth century.
		Since it functions so well as a continuous storyline, the collection does not contain any obvious stand-out issues; possibly #9 ("Tales in the Sand", the prologue), #13 ("Men of Good Fortune", the issue featuring Hob Gadling) and #14 ("Collectors", an issue set at a convention of serial killers) will be remembered the clearest.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Dolls_House.html (524 words)

	Hob Gadling - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gadling first appears in issue 13, vol 2, as a soldier of the Hundred Years War, arguing with friends in an inn somewhere inside the modern borders of London.
		Gadling becomes rich, gets married and knighted, falls in disgrace after the premature death of his wife and child, enters the slave trade to become rich for the second time, and exits it when Dream shows him the immorality of it.
		Gadling violates a major cliché of fantastical stories: physical immortality almost invariably turns out to be a curse in disguise, with the recipient eventually longing for death.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hob_Gadling (386 words)

	Hob Gadling Information
		Gadling first appears in the issue "Men of Good Fortune" (in The Doll's House collection) as a soldier of the Hundred Years' War, arguing with friends in an inn somewhere inside the modern borders of London.
		Gadling is arguing that if he refuses to die he will have eternal life, and that dying is merely a habit of mind, something people do because everybody does it.
		Gadling also has much to say about the inauthenticity of his surroundings: 'It's just someone's idea of the English Middle Ages crossed with bloody Disneyland' He spends most of time drunk in a disused and derelict tavern, vaguely similar to the one in which he first met Dream and Death.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hob_Gadling (937 words)

	Dream
		Hob used to think Dream was just curious as to what an immortal man would do with himself, but after seeing how many other immortals were out there heâd decided that Dream was looking for a friend.
		Hob said that if Dream met him again in a hundred years time it would be because they were friends, and for no other reason.
		Hob told Dream that he had the smell of death about him, and asked him to be careful.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/hellUSA/Dream1.html (5317 words)

	Hob Gadling
		Hob Gadling is a fictional character from the Sandman comic book by Neil Gaiman who refuses to die (in the 15th century) and so is granted eternal life by Death.
		In the comic book about the story of Hob Gadling, we can see that people's conversations in the 15th century inn and 20th century pub happen to be the same (except for little modifications) which is clearly a way for Gaiman to tell us that nothing has really changed.
		To Gadling, however, it is a blessing - perhaps only Death has the power to bestow immortality without unpleasant strings attached.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/ho/hob_gadling.html (206 words)

	Hob Gadling
		Gadling first appears in the story "Men of Good Fortune" in The Sandman #13 (featured in The Doll's House collection) as a soldier of the Hundred Years' War, arguing with friends in an inn somewhere inside the modern borders of London.
		Gadling becomes rich, gets married and knighted (1389-1589 A.D.), falls in disgrace after the premature death of his wife and child (1589-1689 A.D.), enters the slave trade to become rich for the second time (1689-1789 A.D.), and exits it when Dream shows him the immorality of it (1789-1889 A.D.).
		His 1789 meeting with Dream is interrupted by the arrival of magician Johanna Constantine, ancestor of John Constantine, who says she heard it rumored that once every hundred years The Devil and The Wandering Jew meet in a tavern.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Hob_Gadling (1091 words)

	What is Hob Gadling? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge - Hob Gadling (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hob Gadling is a fictional character from the Sandman
		Death agrees, at her brother's request, to grant Gadling eternal life, on the grounds that 'it might be amusing'.
		Gadling is knighted, marries several times, enters the slave trade to become rich for the second time, and exits it when Dream shows him the immorality of it.
	info.abaara.com /pac/Hob_Gadling (296 words)

	The Sandman Timeline@Everything2.com
		Dream and Death are amused by his assertion, and when Hob promises to meet him in the same pub 100 years hence, Dream agrees.
		Hob hollers after him that if Dream should return in 1989, it will be only because they are friends.
		His last stop is to meet with Bobby Gadling, toast their friendship, and warn him that he might not come back.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1304607&lastnode_id=1258885 (3160 words)

	Untitled Document
		Hob is Dream's friend -- perhaps his only one -- which makes him also one of the most important characters.
		In the issue he is introduced, we see Hob rise, become rich, love, suffer the loss of his wife and make decisions that will haunt him for the rest of his considerable life.
		Make no mistake; the influence of Hob on the series is not as dramatic as that of Death, but his first appearance here in 'The Doll's House' must be noted.
	www.popimage.com /dec99/reviews/dollshouse.html (1521 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Sandman The Wake: Books: Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hob Gadling and his girlfriend attend a renaissance festival.
		Long ago, Hob was given eternal life by the Sandman, and over the centuries, the two became friends.
		Hob thinks about it, realizes that he still wants to live, and says no thanks to the offer.
	www.amazon.ca /Sandman-Wake-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1563892871 (1901 words)

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		Hob was away on business, and she was apartment sitting, as always.
		It was a bad habit, one neither nice nor polite, and as an attorney, she knew it to be illegal as well.
		Hob had been less than forthcoming, saying only that John would return when he was ready and that he'd been in good health when they'd parted.
	solo.abac.com /lubakmetyk/others/davidlee/hb12.txt (4197 words)

	.:The Endless Crew:.
		Quick Overview: Hob Gadling was one of those rare people who honestly look at and question the very foundations of life.
		Hob is one of these individuals and has been for centuries, but he wasn’t born that way.
		Hob spent his first session of forever doing exactly what most of us would do, more of what he had done before.
	www.theendlesscrew.com /view_rant.php?id=83 (516 words)

	Twenty-Five
		Walls go up and walls go down, fortunes rise and fall, and through it all both he and the White Horse survive, changing their appearances and their names, but always in the end remaining true to who and what they are.
		Hob will have a drink or two to honor his memory and honor the tradition, and then move on himself.
		Hob took a step back, out into the rain, and then spun on his heel and fled into the street.
	mooncalf.org /library/fanfic/ficbits4/25.html (730 words)

	The Sandman: The Wake
		Death shows up and Hob, after a few questions, figures out who she is and wonders why she's there.
		He shares with her a dream he had, in which Dream died; Death informs him that his dream was true and asks if he would like to end his part of the bargain and finally die.
		Hob declines, basically saying that he would like to go on living, even though his reason for it has changed.
	www.rambles.net /gaiman_sandman10.html (1202 words)

	»»Book Reviews««
		Hob Gadling and his girlfriend attend a renaissance festival.
		Long ago, Hob was given eternal life by the Sandman, and over the centuries, the two became friends.
		Hob thinks about it, realizes that he still wants to live, and says no thanks to the offer.
	www.financial-book-review.com /Bond-fund/Book/Book_71.html (6438 words)

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		For instance, I would figure that the events surrounding a certain chapter would be happening in December of a year, and the very next scene I would read would have Hob visiting at the gravestone of his love in the midst of snow falling.
		Dream and Death visit the White House Tavern, and Robert "Hob" Gadling is granted life until he chooses death.
		Robyn Gadling, Hob's son, dies in a tavern brawl.
	biphome.spray.se /rivieran/literature/timeline.html (3571 words)

	The Sandman - alt.fan.neil-gaiman: Best Threads
		The second question is related: In the RenFaire story, Hob Gadling has a dream in which he sees Morpheus walk off with the ne-er-do-well that we know as Destruction.
		I originally assumed that the continuity of the "new" Dream with the "old" Dream precluded a conventional afterlife for an Endless; you would wind up with multiple copies, only one of which is currently "official", but all of which would be around till the end of the universe.
		See you again for one final time." Also, the fact that someone killed Despair would seem to imply that they don't jave to want their death to die, though it is possible that Despair killed herself.
	www.iafol.org /schede/sandman/afn-g_best_threads/Killing_endless.html (1031 words)

	Hob's zeitgeist
		Posted by Hob Gadling at 11:46 AM 8 comments Links to this post
		Posted by Hob Gadling at 10:35 AM 2 comments Links to this post
		My time is limited and I can only do one thing at a time thanks to my condition.
	gadling.blogspot.com (1018 words)

	Amazon.de: Gaiman, Neil, Vol.10 : The Wake (Sandman Collected Library): English Books: Neil Gaiman,Michael Zulli,Jon J. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hob's description of American beer has to be read in context to be believed, but it made me split my sides.
		She brings Hob the news of her brother's passing, and asks if he's ready to call it a day.
		Hob's anguish over whether to choose a poetic death over a degrading life is a great, moving literary moment.
	www.amazon.de /Gaiman-Neil-Vol-10-Sandman-Collected/dp/1563892790 (1831 words)

	SuicideGirls > Members > WelnTaod > Blog
		The passt several days i had been reading the stories of Hob Gadling in the Sandman Comic Series.
		At one point, the disturbing portrait of the slave trade was relayed, especially poignant by Gadling's guilt through carried over hundreds of years.
		This and the fact the fact that I live four blocks from where all of this took place and where the memorial stands marking it.
	suicidegirls.com /members/WelnTaod/501228 (644 words)

	Neil Gaiman's Sandman
		Hob Gadling: You're not the first lass I've known in my time was passing, nor even the fiftieth.
		Hob Gadling: Because life's not fair, I suppose.
		Hob Gadling: Old enough to have learned to keep my mouth shut about seeing a bloody great snake in the middle of the ocean.
	www.angelfire.com /tx3/treachery/sandman/8.html (2472 words)

	Alike in Ignorance
		Apart from being screwed out of a tip by Hob Gadling, Sandra's dreams tonight will likely not be pleasant.
		Desire didn't mean for the seed planted in Hob's mind to bloom in his dreams, but it has.
		Maybe it was the way he was sent to sleep, or maybe Desire's touch was stronger than it was meant to be, or maybe there was already something there.
	solo4.abac.com /lubakmetyk/others/eleanorK/alikeinignorance.htm (4799 words)

	Reviews - icsf
		The Sandman series is composed of ten volumes which contain a single ongoing story concerning the "life" (existence might be a better term) of Lord Morpheus the personified ruler of the concept of dreams, tales, and stories.
		Part of the draw and interest of he series is the way in which the secondary characters (from the wonderful Death, to the immortal Hob Gadling, even unto the truly remarkable Delirium) are described with a fully textured roundness which is found so rarely in novels of any kind - let alone graphic ones.
		In fact the characters in this series are so well-fleshed out that even the single-minded embodiments of a simple concept (like Death or Delirium mentioned above) manage to seem like fully realistic people - as well as being iconic and alien.
	www.union.ic.ac.uk /scc/icsf/php/reviews_view.php?id=2758 (244 words)

	The Shipping Forecast for August 13th
		Neil Gaiman's latest comics project has been kept tightly under wraps, a couple of promotional pieces notwithstanding, but the gist of it seems to be the adventures of the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe some 400 years ago.
		This sounds more than a little reminiscent of the 'Hob Gadling' story in SANDMAN to me, only set in the Marvel sandbox.
		Not that this is a bad thing, by any means, but Gaiman has described it as being 'really fun', so fans of his more cerebral and introspective work may not find this to their taste.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=639 (1016 words)

	Missives from the Technocave » The Hob Gadling Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Missives from the Technocave » The Hob Gadling Society
		The idea, naturally, brought to mind what's quite possibly my favorite issue of Sandman, in which Hob Gadling, an immortal, visits a Ren Fest.
		The Hob Gadling Society, I'd call it, in his honor.
	www.onetusk.com /otjournal/2006/05/22/the-hob-gadling-society (552 words)

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