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Gazou
September 4th, 2012, 05:06 PM
IT has a vague fear that there might be another and that the seven kids are agents of that Other. During Chud, Bill thinks it might be the creator of the Turtle (although I imagine it may be the other way around.)

Unlike IT and the Turtle, we have no direct insights into exactly WHAT the Other is.
I figured the Other is a force as primitive as IT, but completely opposite. IT is a destroyer of life, his essence being the deadlights. The Other would be something that feeds and nurtures, that gives joy and hope. The Living Lights.

But why does’nt the Other have a material manifestation in our? Or does it?

Reading the part where Eddie dies, I realized the Other was there all along. While IT deceives, wears a thousand masks and hides under the earth, the Other is in plain sight. All around us and so obvious that we usually don`t think about it.

What feeds all life on this earth and banishes the nighmares? That thing so powerfull it can destroy a vampire in an instant. While IT is seen as a Nightmare Spider, I think the Sun or maybe sunshine, is the best image our minds can give to the Other.

Eddie, dying: “…the light, oh God, that perfect rational light that clears the horizon somewhere in the world every second.”

Of course sunlight does not harm IT and IT can kill in daylight. Same as the Other can help the seven at night or under the earth. These two forces cannot affect each other directly.

What do you people think? How do you imagine the Other?

GNTLGNT
September 5th, 2012, 03:58 PM
How do you imagine the Other?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Theother1972poster.jpg/220px-Theother1972poster.jpg...ummmm, as a movie???:umm:

Gazou
September 6th, 2012, 05:00 PM
Ok, then I won't reveal the secret of the Other... :zip:

floating_balloon
November 15th, 2012, 02:37 PM
I always thought The Other was Stephen King?

Shoe
November 16th, 2012, 07:22 AM
The Other = Gan!. The Other's (Gan's) physical manifestation = The Tower!.

Evan Dean
December 11th, 2012, 07:46 AM
That is exactly what I was thinking! King said at the end of Song of Susannah that this book seemed like a practice shot at the Dark tower books. Ka is like a wheel, and we can see that symbolism in IT as well. Also, Bev seems a lot like a Gunslinger to me. Not only because she is a good shot, but because of the way a hardness can be brought out of her under the right circumstances i.e. her fight with Tom.

Chuggs
December 11th, 2012, 11:00 AM
I thought of the Other as God.

gilligan421
January 9th, 2013, 05:19 AM
i agree i think its god

Chris1974100
April 12th, 2013, 07:56 PM
hahahha I thought it was our politician hahaha

Chris1974100
April 12th, 2013, 07:56 PM
The other might be a god like Gan in the Dark Tower series

Walter Oobleck
April 12th, 2013, 08:29 PM
It's like when you go out of your head....boing!...and you look back and there's the other lying there on the bunk...but there's a kind of cord connecting the two. Some sort of twinners. So...kinda creepy, hey...if the other of it is...that. And your mind gets tossed into these time passages.