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Hmm, okay. Even though I think that my Mom, my cousin Spencer and myself are the only people I know of in real life who follow Stephen King's tremendous Dark Tower series, I'm still throwing out a possible spoiler warning before I say what I'm about to say. I'm not going to cut it, though, because, though I am going to point out one thing from the book, the rest is conjecture. Conjecture, sure, based on things King has said, if it do ya. Everyone knows he's teased a million times that Roland might not make it to the Tower. (Roland, I love thee!)

So in Six Characters In Search Of An Author, The Song Of Susannah, the characters end up in the world that Stephen King inhabits, and in the part I've read to, they've just decided to go and meet him. (This can't be considered a spoiler, because it says so on the jacket.) Eddie* has made yet another name connection (these constant Ka connection things do tend to annoy me once in a while. We get the picture.) Stephen King, Crimson King.

Here's the conjecture part: Stephen King is very big on the writer's advice, "murder your darlings." He said so in his own On Writing, you must murder your darlings.

Roland is clearly Stephen King's darling, say thank ya. So while he's hinted that, as a writer, he might kill off Roland, well, now that he is a character in his own story (and the Crimson King being Roland's possible downfall,) I'm getting the feeling that Stephen King the character might have a hand in Roland's death, if not actually full-on murdering him.

All of which is too weird, even for me.



(On a side note, Eddie is putting this all together in his mind: how much of his life--since getting sucked into Roland's world--has seemed like a story, and now he is fighting the intuition that he's only a character in a fable. He insists that this is his life, not a story, that he exists goddamnit and that he is alive outside of Stephen King's imagination. Jeez, and I thought Sahrek and Hisoka were troublesome.)

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Hmm, okay. Even though I think that my Mom, my cousin Spencer and myself are the only people I know of in real life who follow Stephen King's tremendous Dark Tower series, I'm still throwing out a possible spoiler warning before I say what I'm about to say. I'm not going to cut it, though, because, though I am going to point out one thing from the book, the rest is conjecture. Conjecture, sure, based on things King has said, if it do ya. Everyone knows he's teased a million times that Roland might not make it to the Tower. (Roland, I love thee!)

So in Six Characters In Search Of An Author, The Song Of Susannah, the characters end up in the world that Stephen King inhabits, and in the part I've read to, they've just decided to go and meet him. (This can't be considered a spoiler, because it says so on the jacket.) Eddie* has made yet another name connection (these constant Ka connection things do tend to annoy me once in a while. We get the picture.) Stephen King, Crimson King.

Here's the conjecture part: Stephen King is very big on the writer's advice, "murder your darlings." He said so in his own On Writing, you must murder your darlings.

Roland is clearly Stephen King's darling, say thank ya. So while he's hinted that, as a writer, he might kill off Roland, well, now that he is a character in his own story (and the Crimson King being Roland's possible downfall,) I'm getting the feeling that Stephen King the character might have a hand in Roland's death, if not actually full-on murdering him.

All of which is too weird, even for me.



(On a side note, Eddie is putting this all together in his mind: how much of his life--since getting sucked into Roland's world--has seemed like a story, and now he is fighting the intuition that he's only a character in a fable. He insists that this is his life, not a story, that he exists goddamnit and that he is alive outside of Stephen King's imagination. Jeez, and I thought Sahrek and Hisoka were troublesome.)