Reincarnation anybody? Crucifixion...crucifixion,

[Ranger_Strider]

I'm surprised if it does not smack of the seven levels of enlightenment and the whole reincarnation philosophy of Hindu-Buddism. The incarnation of Patrick Danville allows Roland to defeat the Crimson King on the go-around we get to see. I think Susannah, Jake and Eddie would like Roland to Figure out Once and For All that there are other worlds than these...(but as always Roland lacks any useful imagination). Patrick seems to hold the key to all those worlds in his pencil. Remember how Walter O'Dim (Flagg) warned Roland not to be fooled by the size of things? He showed him a fine example of what he meant in the midst of the palaver amongst the bones. He said true and Roland forgot to say thank-ya. He couldn't get past seeing Patrick as a boy that was useless in most ways and hence overlooked the key to his ka: not in the Dark Tower, but in the 'boy' with the glammerous pencil and pad.
It is truly a case of a closed-minded addict in Roland, that Tower is his heroin just as Eddie figured out immediately on meeting up with him. Eddie had a built-in weakness for such addictions and was hooked to his death by it. Roland is revealed as an extremist who once set on the path to an imagined glorious quest (jihad, crusade, mission) lets no cost of life and family stand in the way. Jake is a child with all the trust and servitude to his father, Oy the same. Susannah is an old pro at changing the game completely (by changing her persona) to serve her immediate truth. As usual, SK gives us our power over others and control of ourselves as containing the evil to be reckoned with.

[Ranger_Strider]

I guess this means I left 'them' speechless...AWESOME!

[thymeoperator]

i thought all that was really interesting - i also thought (regarding susannah being the 'old pro' as you said) that maybe that was like foreshadowing. althroughout the books, especially toward the end, i found myself thinking, 'come on, do they really just all sense the workings of the universe so well that they know when it's their time to die or go?' and then when it hit the end i thought it was more a case of: they remembered the roles they were going to play because they've done it so many times before. susannah wakes up and thinks 'i'm not meant to be at the tower, roland goes alone' why? because she's done it before. maybe the key is for them to break out of playing the same old parts.

[Ranger_Strider]

The parts, being: set from the beginning and true to the end. Unless, unless, some creative and insightful thought intervenes. What about the other beams? Fox and Hound? Face-hugger and dreams? Who can say what things game out scenes?