It and Forgetting

[michal]

I find it interesting that the once were children in It had to forget everything in order to move on. Having a good memory and loving it, this is very hard for me to understand.

Do you really think we really must forget in order to move on? Doesn't mean we've really learned nothing?

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I interpreted it slightly differently because, as with Jack Sawyer in Black House, you never really truly forget anything.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Doc Wilson]

As a psychologist, I'm fascinated by the phenomenom, and impressed with SK's understanding of it. When something that is totally at odds with our construction of reality happens to us, it shakes us to the core, and we go about forgetting it as soon as humanly possible.

[marew1]

I think there memories were more compartmentalized as was with Jonesy in Dreamcatcher. I was in the back of their minds and didn't come to the fore front until faced with the situation again.

[marew1]

I think there memories were more compartmentalized as was with Jonesy in Dreamcatcher. I was in the back of their minds and didn't come to the fore front until faced with the situation again.


This should have been written as this-

I think their memories were more compartmentalized as was with Jonesy in Dreamcatcher. It was in the back of their minds and didn't come to the fore front until faced with the situation again.

[Robert Gray]

The final loss of memory is different from the first. Do not forget that Mike Hanlon even speculates that the things he writes down to try and record the events will fade from the paper. It didn't belong in the world, it was an unnatural invasion and everything that It touched was warped and damaged against the natural order. Once the losers killed It, the natural order started to cleanse the taint away entirely. That is why they are losing their memories of things never should have been. That is why records fade from paper. That is why Derry falls apart. So much of it had been artificially propped up and manipulated by It that the natural order simply blasted it away with water. The victory of the Losers over It is rewarded with keeping their good feelings even if they didn't know why and being freed of the taint of It entirely, retroactively.

[Bryan James]

I hated pickled beets when I was a kid. Now I sometimes crave them even when I'm not pregnant. Go figure.

~BJS

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

That thing where the characters' memories fade at the end of the book is a trick that Mr. King uses a lot, michal. (See also: Insomnia, Bag Of Bones, maybe others...) I value memory and knowledge and awareness more than anything else in the world, so I find it frustrating the same way you do.

We all float down here.

[michal]

I think their memories were more compartmentalized as was with Jonesy in Dreamcatcher. It was in the back of their minds and didn't come to the fore front until faced with the situation again.

But what happens now? If It never reappears, will they never remember again?

[michal]

Bryan James, I have to ask: What the *** do you mean???!!!

[Robert Gray]

But what happens now? If It never reappears, will they never remember again?

It will not a reappear. Some other monster will rise in time to threaten other heroes of another time and place, but the Losers have fought their battle.