Not Pandora's box!

[magazinetwit]

But Gaunt's hyena-hide valise which burst open and the trapped wailing voices escaped in a vapour.
1. Polly felt the hot sinking poison in her arms and chest disappear.
2. All over Castle Rock, guns and clubs were cast down.
The whole rotten escapade of Leland Gaunt came to an end. He no longer had them at his mercy.
BUT They had to live with what they had done. I wonder if SK looks towards parables for some of his ideas?

[GNTLGNT]

He IS a man of faith, and I think-whether consciously or not, yes-he does intertwine those ageless lessons into his fiction...

[wally wonder]

i hadn't looked at the ending of needful things w/the following in mind, not until i read something like it in the stand....but isn't what happens between alan and leland somewhat like what happens to saul/paul on the road to damascus? the business w/the light?

[Bryan James]

And then there came the sound of 7,000 wet and gurgling trumpets from men numbering 24. Pants were ripped, and walls were stuccoed.
They were from the West, with beards unshorn, and they hade made hale and hearty lunch at the Taco Bell on 7th Street, near that tattoo place.
The Beast recoiled from the assault of mangut brimstone blasts and returned to The Pit, because it was like the worst Dutch Oven ever.

And Lo! On the horizon a figure appeared wearing a halo.

"IT IS DONE," thundered the skies, and white coins began to fall from the skies.

"TAKE UNTO YOU THIS BLESSED THING AND ALL WILL BE WELL AND ALL WILL BE WELL FOREVER."

The 24 were dutiful, and they consumed the prescription strength antacid that fell from above, and all was well forever, at least until the next poker night, damn that Philly Cheesesteak sandwich with pepperoncinis.

The End

....

In other words, religion is a great (or horrible) place to get ideas. Depends on the writer. And I hope God has a sense of humor.

[Rand]

And then there came the sound of 7,000 wet and gurgling trumpets from men numbering 24. Pants were ripped, and walls were stuccoed.
They were from the West, with beards unshorn, and they hade made hale and hearty lunch at the Taco Bell on 7th Street, near that tattoo place.
The Beast recoiled from the assault of mangut brimstone blasts and returned to The Pit, because it was like the worst Dutch Oven ever.

And Lo! On the horizon a figure appeared wearing a halo.

"IT IS DONE," thundered the skies, and white coins began to fall from the skies.

"TAKE UNTO YOU THIS BLESSED THING AND ALL WILL BE WELL AND ALL WILL BE WELL FOREVER."

The 24 were dutiful, and they consumed the prescription strength antacid that fell from above, and all was well forever, at least until the next poker night, damn that Philly Cheesesteak sandwich with pepperoncinis.

The End

....

In other words, religion is a great (or horrible) place to get ideas. Depends on the writer. And I hope God has a sense of humor.

Satire noted and appreciated.

And might I add: How, by the bilious buttocks of Baal, do we end up getting dosed, again, with Judeo/Christian bible references from a story found in Greek mythology?

[Bryan James]

Satire noted and appreciated.

Thanks, because I worked on that for at least 40 days and 40 nights before I posted.

[wally wonder]

huh?

[wally wonder]

i dunno if those posts, satirical or not, mean something...if they do, the meaning is lost on me.

but in reference to the thread starter and what i posted earlier, alan felt 'a jolt of power run up his arm' when he held the flowers out to gaunt....this is just before polly clamped down on gaunt's hand....the white! the coming of the white! alan thinks as he feels that power...

...this was something felt earlier, too, by eddie warburton, the janitor at the municipal building....remember him?...when he squares off against sonny?....and after sonny tells him about the letter, 'a great white light--the light of understanding--suddenly went on in eddie's mind.'

...so someone takes offense that i can see the same kind of thing happening w/saul/paul on the road to damascus....things have come to a sad pass when sk fans can't talk about sk's stories w/o attending to some politically correct methodology...whose roots may or may not have their origins with the greeks, the hebrews, or the watery denizens of atlantis.

whether or not one agrees with the analogy is beside the point, isn't it? if the only answer is the one indicated and the attendant thanks, well then is it any wonder that eventually people forgo conversation altogether?

[Pucker]

Satire noted and appreciated.

And might I add: How, by the bilious buttocks of Baal, do we end up getting dosed, again, with Judeo/Christian bible references from a story found in Greek mythology?

"There are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum."

Jose Luis Borges . . . unless I'm greatly mistaken.

[boogerb53]

....

. And I hope God has a sense of humor.

Yes she does.....