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Encyclopedia > The Kindly Ones

The Kindly Ones (a translation of the Greek Eumenides, "kind-hearted") is a euphemistic reference to the Furies in Greek mythology.
The Kindly Ones is the ninth volume of The Sandman comic book series.
The Kindly Ones is the sixth volume of Anthony Powell's twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
The Kindly Ones is a band from Rock Island, Illinois. official site

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Categories: Disambiguation A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces. ... In Greek mythology the Erinyes (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. ... Cover of The Sandman #1, by Dave McKean. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) is a writer most remembered for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. ... In literature, there are some recognisable types of novel sequence. ... A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve volume roman Ã clef by Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975. ...

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The Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (522 words)
	The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.
	The most structurally ambitious of the collections, The Kindly Ones is a single storyline written as a Greek tragedy, with Morpheus as its doomed hero and an aspect of the triad of witches, the Hecatae, as the Greek chorus.
	The Kindly Ones also continues several other stories, including that of Cluracan of Faerie and his sister Nuala, and that of Rose Walker and her former landlord Hal.

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