Please help me..

**Ebdim9th** · July 31st, 2009

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** · August 4th, 2009

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** · August 11th, 2009

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

**Vincent Gaines** · November 13th, 2009

Originally Posted by 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.

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...

**mistergone** · December 18th, 2009

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**thejoetuohy** · October 26th, 2010

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** · October 26th, 2010

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** · October 26th, 2010

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

**Mother** · October 26th, 2010

Originally Posted by Bev Vincent

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** · October 29th, 2010

Originally Posted by 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.

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....