I liked the Sandman show BETTER?

Rogan: Vaaaaaaxpooooosting!

Our roommates have been watching the Sandman show. Normally I wander in and out at best while they watch stuff, but Sandman has drawn me in. Which is crazy, because: I don't like the Sandman comic. I like the show better, WAY better, and that NEVER HAPPENS. Why?

So a while back, I went to the library, grabbed the volume the show was on, and compared and contrasted. And not only did I realize why I liked the show better, I realized why I have so much trouble connecting to Gaiman's work!

( spoilers for the Doll's House arc, plus the Graveyard Book and American Gods )

Past Plurals: Sandra J. Hocking and Company

While at the public library (visiting our new best friend, the book scanner), we scanned the in-library-use-only copy of Sandra J. Hocking and Company's Living With Your Selves: a survival manual for people with multiple personalities. From 1992, it's the earliest medical-multi self-help book that I know of. (EDIT: incorrect! Jackyln Pia's Multiple Personality Gift, from 1991, predates it and has been posted online.) (Also, EDIT 9/25/23: I have replaced the link with the complete scan of the book I made later. No material is missing from this new file!)

Hocking and Company are unusual in that she/they are/were one of the few publicly out medical-multis who managed to publish more than one book in their lifetime! (I'm going to flail at names and pronouns because integration plus multiple names means I'm not sure what the proper way to refer to Hocking is.) Hocking's full bibliography that I know of is:( Bibliography! )

( The cultural context of Hocking and Company )

( Language and terminology notes )

( Various Quotes and Bits )

( Hocking's Contract for Survival, which I think is the best part of this book and which we plan to adapt for our own use! )

( Conclusion )

( Ciiiiitationnnnnns! )

( Footnote about Colin Ross. UGH. )