![]() ![]() Dream convinces him otherwise, and they agree to keep meeting every one hundred years.ĭuring their meeting in 1589, Hob boasts his newfound prosperity, and Dream notices an aspiring playwright Will Shaxberd, who tells his famous colleague Kit Marlowe "I would give anything to have your gifts". At first, when Dream shows up, Gadling believes that he had made some kind of deal with the Devil. Gadling agrees, and after one hundred years they meet again. Dream believes that this might be an interesting experiment, and so tells Gadling that, if he truly believes the way to live forever is simply not to die, Dream will meet him in one hundred years in the same tavern for a drink. They overhear a man called Hob Gadling who insists that people only die because it is a bad habit into which they fall, and that he would have no part of it. In 1389, Death invites Dream into a tavern, saying he should for once meet the humans "on their terms". ![]() But both Hob and Morpheus learn surprising lessons. Over the many years, Morpheus revisits Hob to see how a human would deal with unlimited life-for better or worse. In a stand-alone story spanning centuries, Morpheus grants an ordinary man named Hob Gadling a gift allowing him to cheat death. ![]()
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