The Ending (!Spoiler!)

**Stan_Richards_of_Windsor** · January 17th, 2012

**You've been WARNED. This is the ending to IT. I said so in the title. I'm not going to hide the spoilers because this whole post is a spoiler. If you're not done IT, turn back now before I sick Legion on you**

Now that I have the ending paragraph(s) to IT(courtesy of blunthead), I can finally post this thread.

I have had connections to a lot of novels. However, once I am establishing the connection, the novel seems to abruptly end.

That's not the case with IT. With IT, because of the sheer size of the novel and Sai King's beautifully written characters, I connected with the Losers and went through their journey.

They were a great ka-tet, and it saddens me how at the end they all start forgetting. I actually shed tears at the end, because it is a depressing thought, forgetting those you loved.
Here it is:

He awakens from this dream unable to remember exactly what it was, or much at all beyond the simple fact that he has dreamed about being a child again. He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood...its beliefs and desires. I will write about all of this one day, he thinks, and knows it's just a dawn thought, an after-dreaming thought. But it's nice to think so for awhile in the morning's clean silence, to think that childhood has its own sweet secrets and confirms mortality, and that mortality defines all courage and love. To think that what has looked forward must also look back, and that each life makes its own imitation of immortality: a wheel.

Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and his friends with whom he shared it.
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Anyways, this also has me excited to re-read IT after DTVII, because I have the 25th Anniversary Ed. in the mail and while re-reading The Gunslinger, I realized how much I began to forget and miss.

**GNTLGNT** · January 17th, 2012

Ka is a wheel...

**The Nameless** · January 18th, 2012

I think alot of people connected to the losers, I know I did, they were so well written. I also totaly agree, it is very saddening when they start to forget, like when Mike calls Richie from hospital and Richie says says he let him speak to the answer machine for so long because he didn't know who he was, and Mike asked Richie what Stan's surname was, and Richie didn't know. I remember thinking when I read that "they went through all that **** together and got so close, now they don't know each others surnames."

You know, it's funny, I couldn't remember the last paragraphs of IT, reading that above was like reading it for the first time.