Once again citing “fair use,” DC Comics has chosen to remove several key quotations from MILESTONE FOREVER, and once again I was given no time to rewrite the offending sections. Following are the quotes that should have been in the issue, including the final quotation, summing up the whole project.
From the end of the last HARDWARE story, “Escape:
“Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.”
—Neil Gaiman
And from the final panel of the book, the Dharma story “Metafictions”:
“Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.”
—Eudora Welty
Finally, the postscript to the whole project, pointed at me, rather than Dharma:
“And although I knew no one man could do much about it, I felt responsible. All our work had been very little, no great change had been made. And it was all my fault. I’d been so fascinated by the motion, that I’d forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I’d been asleep, dreaming.”
—Ralph Ellison
