Ah, gotcha.
05-08-2008 10:54 PMJeanSpektR: right or wrong the theory is (I am not going to spoil the book for you http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ear_wink-1.gif), it surely is good. I personally don't care a f**k about Zodiac, but the point is that all cultural contexts do converge within the world of the Dark Tower, and even though no interpretation can hold the absolute truth, most, or maybe all, are asymptotically correct. As you said, it is meant to make the reader think deeper into the universe in general. 05-09-2008 07:43 AMLadyHitchhikerI thought that it was supposed to be purple so we KNEW it didn't come from our world... 05-10-2008 09:30 AMpathoftheturtle...but ironically, it did come from our world.
My question is, did Walter know that? Perhaps the paint was "meant" as misdirection. 05-10-2008 09:39 AMWuducynnMmmmm I'm still thinking the Purple Blade was a symbol of the dying worlds. 05-10-2008 11:45 AMpathoftheturtleSo... Does that mean that you think that the blade is above the Tower? 05-10-2008 01:59 PMJohn Blazewell the tower is small enough to exist on a planet, so why can't there be something bigger?
maybe there's a Horton out there with his own tower. 05-10-2008 02:21 PMWuducynnIf you look at our conversation above, to me the grass surrounding the Rose seems to represent the worlds around and yet also a part of the Tower, and Walter mentions a dying blade of grass on an alien plain, which makes me wonder if Roland seeing that Purple blade of Grass as a warning of whats at stake. So no, I don't think it is above the Tower. 05-12-2008 08:46 AMpathoftheturtleCool. It wasn't clear to me. Seems that we're in agreement. As far as that goes, I think the blade and the Rose are one and the same.
Because the Tower is the nexus of size. It represents the cosmic order that prevents the kind of situation that Walter described, wherein you'd be forced to conclude that every time you burn a twig, you destroy an infinity of infinities.
The bird is in the air and the air is in the bird. ;) 05-15-2008 03:44 PMpathoftheturtleSo, on second thought, perhaps the purple color does stand specially for the corruption of the Red. Hm.Quote:
... And the quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.
But something's wrong with it, he thought.
There was a jagged dissonance buried in the hum, like bits of broken galss. There was a nasty flickering purple glare in its hot heart, some cold light that did not belong there.
--Wolves of the Calla(emphasis mine)
Still, I continue to feel that the main thing that Roland getting the precise vision he that did, near the end of The Gunslinger, shows is the special relationship that exists between Keystone Rose and Tower Keystone.
Another question to conside here: I wonder if the use of a blade of grass might have anything to with the series' continual switching between "a rose, a stone, an unfound door" and Thomas Wolfe's original phrase "a leaf, a stone, an unfound door" ... ? 10-28-2008 02:12 PMflaggwalksthelinei think the rose is a metaphor for size, walter/marten/flagg says something along the lines of "size gunslinger is what this is all about" (paraphrasing there) I think that the rose represents how roland is really being manipulated by ka and is actually very small compared to said forces, plus the Dark tower has a lot of multiverse cosmology theory in it and the blade of purple grass and the rose both represent how infinite (and as such incomprehesible) existence is, the man in black knew EXACTLY what would happen (death but not 4 u gunslinger, etc) and the purple blade of grass (which grew around the rose/ 1976 tower) showed roland for just an instant his actual fate but only for a single split second
does that make sense? 10-28-2008 02:22 PMLadyHitchhikerIt does and it is very interesting! 05-21-2013 11:52 PMjeotodoxyGamesVery amusing idea
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