The Dark Tower 04 - Wizard and Glass By Stephen King

The Dark Tower 04 - Wizard and Glass By Stephen King

Prologue: Wizard and Glasses the fourth volume of a longer tale inspired by Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The first volume,The Gunslinger, tells how Roland of Gilead pursuesand at last catches Walter, the man in black, who pretended friendship with Roland's father but who actually served Marten, a great sorcerer. Catching the half-human Walter is not Roland's goal but only a means to an end:Roland wants to reach the Dark Tower, where he hopes the quickening de-struction of Mid-World may be halted, perhaps even reversed. Roland is a kind of knight, the last of his breed, and the Tower is his ob-session, his only reason for living when first we meet him. We learn of anearly test of manhood forced upon him by Marten, who has seduced Roland'smother. Marten expects Roland to fail this test and to be "sent west," his fa- ther's guns forever denied him. Roland, however, lays Marten's plans atnines, passing the test . . .due mostly to his clever choice of weapon. We discover that the gunslinger's world is related to our own in somefundamental and terrible way. This link is first revealed when Roland meets Jake, a boy from the New York of 1977, at a desert way station. There aredoors between Roland's world and our own; one of them is death, and that is how Jake first reaches Mid-World, pushed into Forty-third Street and runover by a car. The pusher was a man named Jack Mort . . . except the thing hiding inside of Mort's head and guiding his murderous hands on this par-ticular occasion was Roland's old enemy, Walter. Before Jake and Roland reach Walter, Jake dies again ... this time be-cause the gunslinger faced with an agonizing choice between this symbolicson and the Dark Tower, chooses the Tower. Jake's last words before plung-ing into the abyss are "Go, then—there are other worlds than these."

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