Please help me..

[Damaja]

In this book, when Rhea of the Coos is looking in the wizards glass, she sees a lady get on all fours and lick(?) carpet... I have a vague memory of this happening in another SK book, and no matter how hard I rack my brains, I cant seem to recall what book it is, if it does in fact happen in another book...
if anyone can tell me what book, thatd be great.. or tell me if im imagining it or not.

[Bryan James]

No comment.

[sam peebles]

I am not aware of any other Stephen King books where this happens. There's a pretty disgusting short story where a maid licks a certain something off a pillowcase (it mighta been the bedsheets, don't quote me), but licking the floors clean? Not that I remember.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

It does ring a bell, someone in Needful Things perhaps?

Long days and pleasant nights

[Ebdim9th]

I'm not sure. Are you maybe getting the scenes mixed together somehow? Sheemie is forced to bend down to lick DePape's boots before Cuthbert intervenes.... that's one similar occurance in that book to what you're describing...



as the fellow says above, may your days be long upon the earth....

[TPG555]

There are references to a lot of his other books in Wizard and Glass. Most notably is The Stand. I cannot recall whether that particular scene (disgusting as it is) is in another of his books.

[bryras]

I am not aware of any other Stephen King books where this happens. There's a pretty disgusting short story where a maid licks a certain something off a pillowcase (it mighta been the bedsheets, don't quote me), but licking the floors clean? Not that I remember.

That is the one I was thinking about as well. I just didn't want to try to explain it!

[Ebdim9th]

I have to say, the bit with Sheemie, has to be one of the greatest scenes of any straight-ahead western adventure that I've ever read or seen. Bert gets the drop on DePape with metal musket-like balls from his slingshot, Reynolds gets the drop on Cuthbert with a knife to the throat, Alain gets a knife down on Reynolds, Jonas puts a gun to Alain's head, and Roland ends it by putting a knife that Jonas knows he wont hesitate to use against his back. Suspenseful, hilarious, and improbable, yet entirely believable the way the King tells it.

Thanks to all who saluted and greeted me.... the pahty is just getting stahted...

[Damaja]

Hi,

It does ring a bell, someone in Needful Things perhaps?

Long days and pleasant nights

Thanks, This is one of the books that I kept thinking of when I was trying to remember.. The other was Dolores Claiborne.. I have not come to any conclusions yet. I've just started re-reading my entire King collection, started with Dark Tower series, on The Stand now, after the stand I plan on re-reading Needful Things and Dolores to see if one of those is "the one"

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

Didn't Randall Flagg want someone to lick his boots clean in The Stand?

[Ebdim9th]

I think so, I know there was an actual boot licking not just the threat of one in Susannah's Song, 6 of the Dark Tower.....

[Ranger_Strider]

I'm just finishing W&G for the first time (reading DTS), and I think I can help:

Yes, the Coos witch watches as one of the local well-to-do women sends away her daughter on an errand so that she may pursue her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which strangely compels her to strip naked and lick THE CORNERS of the floor while down on all fours.
It serves to show the horror of such an affliction not only in the fear of being caught in the act of gratifying the urge, but also in the perverse joy Rhea feels in being privvy to it, via the glass.
I think it is very reminiscent of the evil proprietor in the Needful Things shop who seems to know everyone's dirty secrets. Perhaps he kept the glass for a time among his very special items.

[Ebdim9th]

I read that too, but forgot to make the connection to this thread....

[Vincent Gaines]

In this book, when Rhea of the Coos is looking in the wizards glass, she sees a lady get on all fours and lick(?) carpet... I have a vague memory of this happening in another SK book, and no matter how hard I rack my brains, I cant seem to recall what book it is, if it does in fact happen in another book...
if anyone can tell me what book, thatd be great.. or tell me if im imagining it or not.



Damaja:

In chapter 6: Closing the Year #9 Theresa Maria Dolores O'Shyven waits for her daughter to leave so she can lick the floor. Carpet is never mentioned,
in fact the book says "sometimes she got splinters in her tongue and had to pause to spit blood into the kitchen basin."

All the while Rhea sits laughing enjoying her degradation when the glass
goes dark and the Big Coffin Hunters come calling...:wink2:

[mistergone]

I'm just finishing W&G for the first time (reading DTS), and I think I can help:

Yes, the Coos witch watches as one of the local well-to-do women sends away her daughter on an errand so that she may pursue her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which strangely compels her to strip naked and lick THE CORNERS of the floor while down on all fours.
It serves to show the horror of such an affliction not only in the fear of being caught in the act of gratifying the urge, but also in the perverse joy Rhea feels in being privvy to it, via the glass.
I think it is very reminiscent of the evil proprietor in the Needful Things shop who seems to know everyone's dirty secrets. Perhaps he kept the glass for a time among his very special items.


What an interesting perspective. I just finished both books, and was thinking the same thing, actually even dreamt about it.

[thejoetuohy]

Wasn't there a scene in The Stand where the Trashcan Man came across a bad guy (can't remember the name, don't have the book with me) who basically sexually abused Trashcan Man, but specifically made him lick his boots?

[MyLife4YouSK]

The Kid.... don't tell me, i'll tell you... can you dig that happy crappy? He'd piss Coors if he could. ha, great character which was cut entirely from the original first edition. Right? I think so. Don't remember Trashy licking his boots, but he could have. Poor Trashy went thru hell with The Kid.

[Bev Vincent]

Makes me think of the short story "Dedication" from Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

[Mother]

Makes me think of the short story "Dedication" from Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

"Dedication" is the short story referenced above. Don't remember the entire premise, but a maid wants to have a child, and she is told by a fortune teller to - ahem - "avail herself" of a certain substance left on bedsheets - to give her child the characteristics that she wants him to have. . . or something along those lines.

[randallFlaggfan1]

I am not aware of any other Stephen King books where this happens. There's a pretty disgusting short story where a maid licks a certain something off a pillowcase (it mighta been the bedsheets, don't quote me), but licking the floors clean? Not that I remember.

While I don't recall any one novel with similarities to the previously mentioned scene in W&G, my mind also turned to this short story. I think it's in Nightmares & Dreamscapes....

[KaLikeWind]

I'm just finishing W&G for the first time (reading DTS), and I think I can help:

Yes, the Coos witch watches as one of the local well-to-do women sends away her daughter on an errand so that she may pursue her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which strangely compels her to strip naked and lick THE CORNERS of the floor while down on all fours.
It serves to show the horror of such an affliction not only in the fear of being caught in the act of gratifying the urge, but also in the perverse joy Rhea feels in being privvy to it, via the glass.
I think it is very reminiscent of the evil proprietor in the Needful Things shop who seems to know everyone's dirty secrets. Perhaps he kept the glass for a time among his very special items.

Wow... Leland Gaunt may have had the glass in his possession... I never even thought of that... what an amazingly interesting concept... I wonder if even Stephen King thought of the possible connection...