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Andyzero: "Child Rolande to the Dark Tower came." Poem by Robert Browning in 1855, based on a line from Shakespeare's King Lear.
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Translation Convention (It is addressed that through the parts set in Mid-World, people aren't speaking English. It's implied that Jake, Eddie and Susannah understand Roland through a psychic connection, and he them. Note that this doesn't hold up for certain words without any real equivalents, ones that represent important concepts—ka (destiny) and all related words, khef (water of life, more or less), and so on.)
Robin Adams: It is? Where? Jake, Eddie and Susannah can talk to the other people in Mid-World just fine, and Roland can talk to people in our world. Roland has trouble reading our world's writing, but that's as far as it goes.
Robin Adams: Several months later, noone's answered this, so I'm cutting it.
Amitai: King will be writing a continuation. http://blogs.usaweekend.com/whos_news/2009/03/stephen-king-no.html
It says, "A Date With Rosie Palms - Roland loses fingers from his right hand, but it's cool, because he jerks off left-handed."
In which book do we learn this?
