Now that we've had enough time to mourn the fall of Jake in Chapter 4 , we finally catch up with the man in black. While I don't expect our conversation to last many years, let's pick the momentum back up for a week as we close out Book I of The Dark Tower. Thank you for joining me on a reread of what Stephen King has called his magnum opus, The Dark Tower series featuring Roland of Gilead, the gunslinger. The point is to get there together! The plan is to read a chapter a week, and each Tuesday we will meet to discuss major themes, motifs, and reactions.
Make sure to bookmark the HQ page for the schedule and links to all of the chapter discussions as they go live! After a rabbit dinner, they break out the Tarot cards, which Roland is told to lay down one at a time.
The stars themselves began to shrink. Whole nebulae drew together and became glowing smudges. The whole universe seemed to be drawing around him. Cast away all thoughts of the Tower. Go your way, gunslinger, and begin the long job of saving your soul.
When pushed as to how Walter met his boss, he explains:. As a stripling he came to me, when I lived, poor and unknown, in a far land. A sheaf of centuries ago he imbued me with my duty and promised me my reward, although there were many errands in my youth and the days of my manhood, before my apotheosis.
You are that apotheosis, gunslinger. You are my climax. Legion more Bible references is the name of the entity apparently paying attention to Roland, but before they meet, the gunslinger will have to destroy the Ageless Stranger. No more detail given there. Roland falls asleep, and when he awakens, many years have passed.
