The Annotated Sandman

               Edited by Ralf Hildebrandt and largely written by Greg Morrow

                         Issue 16:  "Lost Hearts"
           Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III

             Seventh part of long storyline _The Doll's House_
       Ninth story reprinted in trade paperback _The Doll's House_

Page 4 panel 6:  An unusual case of anthropomorphism, for a _place_ to become a
_person_.

Page 5 panel 1:  Dream's assertion that vortices are mortals directly
contradicts Lucien's assumption, issue ten page 14, that the vortex was an
"it", a thing.
	Panel 5:  I suppose I should start keeping a "Canonical list of Sandman
danglers".  This would obviously be one.

Page 9 panel 5:  We need not worry that Fiddler's Green was the historical Gilbert
Keith Chesterton (born 29 May 1874 in Kensington), as here he says he was not even 
a "very good _copy_ of a human" [emphasis his].

Page 13 panel 2:  Dream is not very bright, indeed.  He has great knowledge,
born of age and, perhaps, his status, but he is not even as capable of insight
as a human.

Page 17 Panel 3:  That's an Iggy Pop CD on the bottom of the panel, _The
Idiot_.  Neil mentions that Lou Reed's _Berlin_ didn't make it into the panel.
	Panel 4-5:  Barbie's life will be more fully explored in a later
storyline.
	Panel 6:  Two books have readable titles:  Empire of the
Senseless and Sleeping in
Flame.  "Sleeping in Flame" is by Jonathon Carroll, an American
writer often writing from Vienna who writes surreal, fantastic, and 
often horrific fiction.  This particular book is a modern retelling of the
Rumpleskiltskin fairy tale.  Carroll has a reputation for using dreams or
fictions becoming reality, and it is rumored that Neil Gaiman had to rework the
plot of _The Doll's House_ after reading a Carroll book that used his original
idea.  _Empire of the Senseless_ was written by Kathy Acker in 1988.  Perhaps
coincidentally, she dedicates the book to her tattooist.  It is described as
a postmodern novel, and "not a pretty story."
	Neil indicates that Shirley Jackson's _We Have Always Lived in the
Castle_ and M.R. James' _Ghost Stories of an Antiquary_ were in the script but
didn't make it into the panel.  He notes that this should help people identify
Zelda's short story extract from _Sandman_ #15 and the title of this issue.

Page 18 panel 2-3:  We saw Judy, and the massacre, in _Sandman_ #6.  We will
see Donna in a later storyline.
	Panel 6:  A presumably genuine photo of G.K. Chesterton, who was the
inspiration for "Gilbert".  Note the signature at lower left.

Page 19 panel 1 (right caption):  Talking about dolls probably relates to the
title of this storyline.
	Panel 2:  Note Rose's namesake tattoo.
	Panel 7:  "And then she woke up" is the conclusion to, among other
things, _Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland_ and the movie [blech!] version of
_The Wizard of Oz_.

Page 20 panel 6:  A fox's "set" is hunter's jargon for a den.  It is therefore
unusual for Jed to use it.

Page 21 panel 5:  Note that Desire's sigil is different from issue ten, and
that the order of sigils is peculiar (Desire to the left of Death).

Page 22 panel 1:  Desire's costume is in many ways reminiscent of Catwoman's, a
villain of Batman's.  However, felinity often seems to have an erotic effect,
and that may be its purpose here.
	Panel 7:  Another of the unspoken rules that govern the Endless,
apparently.  Disaster of some sort would strike were Dream to slay kin of the
Endless.  We saw a possible hint to this in _Sandman_ #10, where Rose is warned
of the "Kindly Ones", and a later issue also uses the Eumenides as a threat.

Page 23 panel 4:  Delirium is the name of the Endless whose sigil is the swirly
one to the right of Despair's on issue 10 page 4.

Contributors include:
	Col. G. L. Sicherman (gls@cbnewsh.cb.att.com) defined "set."
	David Goldfarb (goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu), Viktor Haag
, and Jim W Lai (jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu)
combined to identify Rose's reading material.
	Neil Gaiman, via Tanaqui C. Weaver (cen@vax.oxford.ac.uk) expanded on
material in Rose's room.
	David Goldfarb (goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu) speculated on the nature of
an Endless disaster.