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    I am starting a graphic book of my personal drawings based on some of Mr. Kings characters. I'm on the road and have most of my books at home. I wanted to add Pennywise to my works but I needed a summary of his description in detail. ( my memory ain't what it use to be) also need Trisha and the different "monsters" she "saw" from TGWLTG but I thought I post that in the proper section. Could someone assist me? Thanks.

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    The easiest thing to do (and most accurate) would be for you to go get a copy of the book. The details and descriptions of the various "clown" encounters can be found here and there. You must remember that good authors like Sai King do not fill in every single detail. They paint in broad strokes and allow the reader's personal experiences and imagination to fill in specifics. If you were to ask ten different readers here what the Pennywise guise looks like you would get agreement on a few key points and from there a radical departure.

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    From Memory:

    Ronald McDonald Hair
    White Face
    Blood Red Mouth
    Eyes were blue but change frequently
    White Gloves/oversized
    Yellow and Blue PolkaDot Suit
    Big oversized Black Clown Shoes

    Balloons lots of Baloons could be wrong about some of this........I didn't look it up.

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    Catnoel thank you! and Robert Gray your right. Maybe I can purchase a ebook for my iPhone. I love this forum!! Thanks for the responses.

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    Don't forget the orange pompoms!

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    I always thought he had a silver suit for some reason. Was I wrong?

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    You aren't wrong. His suit is described as silver with orange pom poms. This is likely because when "It" breaks down and starts to change it seems to go this amorphous silver. I think people fixate too much on the "clown" guise, perhaps because the first scene of the book has him dressed as Pennywise.

    Never forget he isn't a clown. The Pennywise disguise is just one of thousands, perhaps millions. It is merely one of the faces It puts on when It needs to get close and not scare you away. I've theorized several times that changing shape into something someone fears is easy. It pulls the image right from the mind of the victim. It clearly has a more difficult time taking on appealing shapes. If it could do that as easily, it could hunt ever so much more effectively. So it pulls images and shapes from its own slowly accumulated resume. The clown clearly served it well for a long, long time. It is only in recent memory that clowns got associated with fear.

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    I thought it was Orange and silver, his suit....with orange pom poms.

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    your right virus, and gray, nice insight. but catnoel, he didnt have gloves (that i can recall), he had long, claw-like nails.

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    the best thing to do would be to watch the movie

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