Bool!

[belynne333]

I've just finished reading Wizard and Glass again and I was surprised to find "Bool, the end" in a scene. Walter is meeting with Jonas to "underline" the boys. Jonas asks to see the sigul, and when Walter puts the buckle away he magics it to him and up his sleeve and says "Abracadabra! Bool! The end!"

Is "bool, the end" an expression outside of SK's books and I've just never heard it before? If it's pure SK, where else has the expression turned up?

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Lisey's story and Rose Madder, off the top of my head, and to the best of my knowledge it is a pure Sai King expression.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Pure SK, never seen/heard it anywhere else. There's a bool in Blaze", I think the trainspotters have only found three bools so far.

We all float down here...

Lencho of the Apes

[Agincourt Concierge]

In the programming world "Bool" refers to a program that finds matches for Boolean expression. But, in the rest of the world, Sai King is the only one that uses it and with different meaning.

[Ubasti]

I remember being used mostly in Blaze.

[KatieScarlet]

The phrase "Bool, the end!" is all through Lisey's Story. It's used like "surprise, you're there!" The story has bool hunts, like scavenger hunts with a scary twist, for the characters. Read Lisey's Story to get more info, it's a great one!

[belynne333]

The phrase "Bool, the end!" is all through Lisey's Story. It's used like "surprise, you're there!" The story has bool hunts, like scavenger hunts with a scary twist, for the characters. Read Lisey's Story to get more info, it's a great one!

I've read Lisey's Story (twice:wink2:).... that's why I was so surprised to see the expression in Wizard and Glass which was written so many years before Lisey. I completely missed it in the other places that everyone has mentioned so far....

BTW I really liked Lisey's story too. In fact, if you check out my profile picture you can see my copy of Lisey's story in the back seat (I didn't even realize it was there when I posted it!

[IfSoGirl]

I remember being used mostly in Blaze.

really? i don't remember it in blaze. maybe i'm just so used to it now i don't even notice it.

[tempest]

I read 'Lisey's Story' before the Dark Tower series. And I really loved both these books/series. 'Bool the end' in Liseys Story was a great theme. It's impressive, that SK has incorporated the humor and horror aspects of this phrase. I enjoyed both these stories very much. I actually want more..:wink2:. Dark Tower has really hooked me in and even though I have almost no patience(I read Dk I-VII in one year 2007-2008) I wish he would (whispering) consider starting another...DT. Nothing else really is measuring up to DT for me :oo: after reading this great novel.:blush:

[Flood1980]

I remember being used mostly in Blaze.

I remember it being used extensively in Lisey's Story. Have you read? GOOD ONE... little slow in the start, but takes a huge drop in reality toward pg 100 or so... Loved it.

[Jack_Sawyer]

I only remember reading it in Lisey's Story also.........

[thebhamgunslinger]

I was surprised to see the bool reference in Wizard and Glass as well. Is there a connection to Lisey's Story, or is it just coincidence you think?

[bopropadop]

Prominent in Lisey's Story...

[Spideyman]

Just about all things Stephen King are connected:smile2:

[dividedgrlofmine]

I didn't notice "bool" in DT. Good catch! I'll have to re-read it.

[Cognac]

those two stories both have to do with an alternate reality. it doesnt really surprise me at all that mr. king would use the expression in both of them, that is his wink to the readers that the realities are to an extent one in the same.

[gaj1967]

In Blaze "Bool" is in Chapter 19.

Gil

[Perse Jr.]

I just re-read a story in Everything's Eventual too with an indirect (I think) "bool" reference. The character (can't remember the story title, but it was the one with the gourmet food salesman in the hotel room considering suicide...) was thinking out something and "bool-it" was used in reference to a "bullet."

[JRLauer]

I remember bool being used in Lisey's Story but I don't remember it being used anywhere else. Of course it's been years since I read Wizard and Glass so I wouldn't remember that one. I'm not sure how that slipped by me in Blaze though.

[DelvianBlue]

The only other place I can think of is boolean logic and boolean algebra. There was a guy named George Boole who came up with it, as far as the math goes.

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

I just re-read a story in Everything's Eventual too with an indirect (I think) "bool" reference. The character (can't remember the story title, but it was the one with the gourmet food salesman in the hotel room considering suicide...) was thinking out something and "bool-it" was used in reference to a "bullet."

Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away????

I remember he collected notes and sayings, like Save Russian Jews, Collect Prizes or some such bizarre thing....

Long days and pleasant nights.

[Perse Jr.]

Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away????

I remember he collected notes and sayings, like Save Russian Jews, Collect Prizes or some such bizarre thing....

Long days and pleasant nights.

Thank you! I double checked and it's "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away." Yes, he (Alfie) kept a journal or notebook of sayings he found on walls in bathrooms and stuff, and the "bool-it" reference was to his own little jingle about shooting himself. Poopie doopie you so loopy! (If you haven't read the book, that's another saying in the story.) :smile2:

[Kim L.]

Thank you! I double checked and it's "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away." Yes, he (Alfie) kept a journal or notebook of sayings he found on walls in bathrooms and stuff, and the "bool-it" reference was to his own little jingle about shooting himself. Poopie doopie you so loopy! (If you haven't read the book, that's another saying in the story.) :smile2:

One of my favorite of his short stories. Also "Viva ze bool" in Rose Madder (bool = bull).