[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Nick Wedig]

>>>Heh. Have you read "One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock" by Neil >Gaiman?
>>
>>nope. is that in one of his short story collections?
>
>"Smoke and Mirrors",and probably several other places as well.

I recall originally reading a comic book adaptation of the story, published (I think) as a prelude to a (now apparently defunct) Elric comic book series (which I wasn't interested in at all, but anything Neil Gaiman gets me).

>
>> i've only read
>>neverwhere and stardust. but i can attest to how reading the Elric novels at
>>the age of ten can permanently warp your psyche.
>
>Yeah, that's basically what the story's about. Comes closer to anything else I've read to portraying the life of a 12 year old fantasy obessive.

Have you seen his other semi-autobiographical stories?  They're some of his best work, though less UA-able than other things.  Violent Cases could be tied into archetypes of the American gangster (or whatever that would be... Masterless Man or Executioner).  The Life and Times of Emperor Heliogabalus (available on line) deals with the boy-king (among other things).  Mr. Punch is probably better tied to Puppetland than UA (I always try to explain to my friends that we should play Puppetland by describing it as a Mr. Punch roleplaying game, but it still doesn't work).

Mr. Teapot
probably forgetting something

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