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Day 1200
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I'm finishing off this final chapter of Part Three of Wizard and Glass over the next two days.
I have a feeling I'll be in a deep depression after this. Susan has been recaptured by Rhea and instead of running to her rescue, Roland thinks she's fine. Besides, his priorities (thanks to the pink Wizard's Glass) have completed shifted over to the Dark Tower.
Alain raised the machine-gun, seated its rusty wire stock in the hollow of his shoulder, and remembered what little he knew about rapid-fire weapons: aim low, swing fast and smooth.
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A helluva a way to open the reading today! Alain mowing down the horsemen like a scene out of Rambo.
The ease with which the gunslingers had gotten inside the enemy’s perimeter and the confusion which greeted their original charge could have been chalked up to inexperience and exhaustion, but the placing of the tankers had been Latigo’s mistake, and his alone. He had drawn them tight without even thinking about it, and now they blew tight, one after another. Once the conflagration began, there was no chance of stopping it
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TV series? I need this on the big screen!
Roland glanced back and was astonished by the size of the black, smoky column rising into the air. Ahead he could clearly see the brush blocking most of the canyon’s mouth. And although the wind was blowing the wrong way, he could now hear the maddening mosquito-whine of the thinny.
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Eyebolt Canyon - the final piece of Roland's plan!
It was time. Roland stuck one of the lucifers between his front teeth and raked it forward. It lit, spilling one hot and sour spark onto the wet bed of his tongue. Before the lucifer’s head could burn away, Roland touched it to the powder in the trench. It lit at once, running left beneath the north end of the brush in a bright yellow thread.
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Guiding Latigo and his army right into the thinny!
How infinite was love, twining in and out of hope and memory like a braid with three strong strands, so much the Bright Tower of every human’s life and soul.
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What a beautiful line! And I wonder if the "Bright Tower" was part of the lore of the land as much as the "Dark Tower" was.
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Thinking of Cuthbert and Alain almost entering the thinny...
Come in, the green shimmer invited, and Latigo found its buzz strangely attractive . . . intimate, almost. Come in and visit, squat and hunker, be at rest, be at peace, be at one.
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With that call of the thinny, I end my reading for today.
I am now 90% of the way through Wizard and Glass.