'the west'

[thymeoperator]

anyone know if there's any deeper significance to so many SK books involving journeying west for the final showdown? or is it just like...he thought of it for one book, then decided to keep the others matching the theme so they all followed suit?

btw please don't reveal the ending of this book to me, i'm 200 pages from being done!!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Traditionally our species has mostly travelled East to West, following the sun, as in LotR, for example.

Long days and pleasant nights

[thymeoperator]

ah okay. yeah i had been wondering if, in 'the talisman', it was something to do with the europeans settling america from east to west.

[aptpupil]

I think that we're almost subliminally conditioned to see "the West" as the good guys, and in recent history, the secretive and sinister governments of Eastern Europe (and also some in the "far East"), also helped to perpetuate that mind set.

As Robert Plant sang in "Stairway To Heaven"...

"There's a feeling I get, when I look to the West, and my spirit is crying for leaving..."