Terry's 3M's
It's not quite 5 AM yet. It's a lovely time of the morning for me. The house is quiet. The dogs are quiet. And I don't have to get the kids up for school for about 2 and a half hours yet.
Faye doesn't work today, but, she and Delton came home late last night. So, unless she has something pressing to do, I don't plan on seeing either one of them for maybe another 6 hours.
Although I love my family, I am also a person who loves solitude. I have hardly ever been at a loss for something to do while alone.
I'm about 80% through Wizard and Glass. I'm enjoying it thoroughly even though I know that a character that I really like is going to die soon. I have read enough DT4 spoilers to know that much. I just don't know how yet. But, I think that I will probably finish the book today.
In his book about horror as a genre in literature and film, Danse Macabre, Stephen King points out that in most cases, premarital and extra-marital sex is often "punished" (usually by the death of one of the partners or someone close to them). King pretty much follows that in his books.
He is also keeping to that in this book. Although the book has elements of horror in it, Wizard and Glass is not a horror novel. The whole Dark Tower series is more fantasy than horror.
The series takes place in a somewhat parallel universe. There are gateways between that universe and ours. Somehow, things have gone wrong in the gunslinger's universe--and in ours. But, perhaps the wrong can be made right again. The Dark Tower holds the key and is probably the central point of all the universes. So, Roland of Gilead (the gunslinger), is on a quest to reach the Dark Tower and try to set things right.
Although Wizard and Glass picks up (actually even backtracks the last chapter) where The Wastelands leaves off and the band of travellers is still headed to the tower, this book is mostly about Roland's past. In a night where time stands still, Roland tells his partners about how and why he left home as a man at the ripe old age of 14. And how the events that year became his ka (fate).
In reading this book, one might be amazed at the maturity of these boys. But, the book takes place in universe where some kind of nuclear disaster resulted in changing the lives of the people so that they are living in a manner similar to a preindustrialized society. But, there are still traces of the pre-nuked time around...mostly, in the remains of a few items that run on gas or electricity.
Since the time resembles that of our Middle Ages, I suppose that it is quite logical that the 14 year old boy should become a man. After all, in the middle ages, people married and had children much earlier than they do now because life expectancy was so much lower.
Well, I'm going to get busy with some other stuff while I still have the computer to myself.
I belong to a Stephen King mailing list and since it goes to my Juno mailbox instead of to the one that Eudora is hooked up to, I've gotten behind in reading the daily letters. So, starting with the April first letter, I have been catching up. Since each letter is approximately 32K, that's quite a bit of online reading. But, since I've been forwarding the letters to the Eudora mailbox, it has gone much faster. That's because Juno is a text only reader. Now that I've sent some of the newletters to Eudora, I can click on the URLs in the letters and not save a large letter just for an address I might want to visit online.
While I took some time off from writing in here, I also revamped my prayer
page and I'm trying to check the links on my site. It's a big job, but, I
gotta do it.
for the border background set.