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This morning I was working on a completely different thing, but certain "recent events" in the Dark Tower novel I was listening to literally forced me to set that aside and bring out a fresh sheet of paper.

I'm not using the usual template here, mostly because I'm planning to edit it - I wanted to post it straight away, but the scansion is hardly brilliant ;) Likely I'll rescan it, and add it to my next post to [livejournal.com profile] after_the_king. ;)

The scene does come from Book 7, but it's not really a spoilery one, hence the lack of warnings. :)





...I am not adding the paragraph that describes it, though, for fairly obvious reasons. :P It's right after a certain event, and right before another one. (Duh, of course.) Confusing enough? :P

Oh man, I owe such a debt of gratitude to [livejournal.com profile] jou and [livejournal.com profile] feels_like_fire! ;D Both for getting me into the series at all - and for being someone I can literally squee at. ;D Oh, what a sad munchkin I would have been, if I'd got to it on my own (...all right, fairly unlikely) and I hadn't had anyone to share the love with! ♥


(Oh, and. For the more spoilery comments? Maybe here would be better. :P I just don't want to spoil anyone, you know? :) )

on 2008-06-10 04:02 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com
such lovely eyes :)

on 2008-06-11 09:03 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kasche.livejournal.com
Thank you! :D

on 2008-06-10 05:05 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jou.livejournal.com
I KNOW EXACTLY WHICH EVENTS THIS COMES BETWEEN. ;^; Oh god, oh Jake, oh Oy, this is so beautiful... I mean, look at that face. Oh god, I want to hug him so badly. I want to hug YOU so badly.

And you HAVE to post this to [livejournal.com profile] after_the_king, it's the law. Jake and Oy are too beautiful not to share. And can you tell me which passage this was, exactly? I want to know what your exact point of reference was...You don't have to do it here, but in email or in the spoilery comments post? Pretty please with Cuthbert/Alain on top?

And believe it or not, I owe you and [livejournal.com profile] feels_like_fire the exact same debt of gratitude. I was all alone in my reading of the novels, and I'm only grateful that my own squee inspired two of the most fantastic people I know to read them too. (BECAUSE ISN'T IT SAD TO SQUEE ALONE??) ... I was in that same boat with Liquor. I read them and had no friends to share it with... EXCEPT THAT YOU MAGICALLY HAD READ THEM, AND WE ARE CO-CHEFS TOGETHER FOREVER.

Seriously. You are among the best squee-friends I've ever had. How lucky am I?? (Also my safety net for when I stoop emailing people and get around to watching more Torchwood. ;D )

on 2008-06-11 11:12 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kasche.livejournal.com
HEE HEE HEE. I BET YOU DO. AND AW THANKEE SAI!!! I wanted to make his eyes look red and puffy and shiny with the tears of doom (pretty much everything is "of doom" these days), but it turns out that doing so in shades of grey is not exactly the easiest thing in the world. HAHAH who would have thought. ;P

You can count on it! Actually, I'd like to add a couple more to the bunch. I'd like to make happen even just one of them before next week. ;P

Hehehe! I really am glad we are together now! *g* JUST LIKE A BIG HAPPY FAMILY. Or a ka-tet. THE KA-TET OF THE KA-MAILS. ...or some name cooler than that. ...and haha, if you put it that way, WE REALLY HAVE RUN TO EACH OTHER'S RESCUE EVER SINCE THE BEGINNING. :D And do I need to reiterate how much I LOVE SQUEEING WITH YOU? Honestly, you make each fandom better. :O

...and you'll find that the Torchwood safety-net is quite wide and made of several squee-liking fans! ;D

<3333333333333333333333

on 2008-06-11 09:31 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] alphatauri3791.livejournal.com
It's lovely!

Can you tell me something about the books?

on 2008-06-11 10:05 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kasche.livejournal.com
Thank you! :D

Of course! ♥ Basically, it's the story of a quest - I tried to think of a way to put it, but since I suck at summaries, here's the one provided by wikipedia:

In the story, Roland is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West, as well as bearing magical powers and the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society. Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland's world is said to have "moved on," and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams — mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish from the face of the earth without a trace, time does not flow in an orderly fashion; even the sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland's motives, goals, and his age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries.


...which doesn't really touch the most relevant points, after all. ;) Let's be clear, the series has his flaws - a slow start (the first book isn't bad per se, but not particularly exhalting either - though that changes radically with the first pages of the second book. ♥) for one, and some things here and there that made me laugh and go "oh, come on". And even with that, they are still some of the books (and some of the characters) that have engaged and touched me the most. :D


...in short: give it a try, because it's worth it. ;)

on 2008-06-11 01:56 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] alphatauri3791.livejournal.com
Does the story have something to do with a book King & Staub wrote years ago, The talisman?

on 2008-06-11 02:03 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kasche.livejournal.com
It's surely not part of the series, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were connections between the two! It's a game that King plays often in DT - taking characters, names or places from books he's already written, and having them play a part in the series. As if, in a way, the Dark Tower was a place that contained (and extended beyond) all of his production. :D


ETA: I checked on the official site, where there's a section just about such connections - The Talisman isn't mentioned, but King & Staub's Black House (http://www.amazon.com/Black-House-Stephen-King/dp/0375504397) is! :D Sadly, I don't know the slightest thing about either, so I can't really say much beyond that. ^^;
Edited on 2008-06-11 02:08 pm (UTC)

on 2008-06-11 07:54 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] alphatauri3791.livejournal.com
Oh, there's this sort of parallel universe where we all have our double and some people have the ability to travel between the two worlds, inhabiting the body of their doubles. A few people exist only in one world because their doubles got killed and they didn't.

The talisman and the Black house are part of the same arc. The Black house of the title was a very evil place which attracted children and brought them on the other side where they became slaves and had to make some huge ghastly machinery (I read it a long time ago and I'm not sure I remember it well). I believe they were kept in this tower, but I'm not sure it's the same.

on 2008-06-12 10:40 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kasche.livejournal.com
Oh! Yeah, I can so see the connection! The twin concept appears furhter along in the series, in the last books, while the ability to travel between words starts already in the second book.

:D! Yep, they have a role in DT too! ;D Here, you finally get to find out what it was that that actually happened to them, and why. :3

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