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I've merged three previous discussions and changed the original title, to create a thread where all aspects of time on different levels of the Tower/other worlds/whens can be discussed :thumbsup:

Yes, and good call - I'd forgotten about Sheemie's gingerbread house :thumbsup:

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean...

...I'm saying that Roland never leaves this bubble, he is trapped within it...infact so is everyone else, but they never notice - and Roland...

I think of it slightly differently.

I think the events of the DT books, Roland's loop in other words, have been cut out and removed from the normal passage of time. It exists in a little bubble...

Yes, even in the Concordance Robin Furth says ambiguous things like "a night that lasted 10 years" and that "Roland had aged 10 years" but the actual passage of time is never concretely stated ;)

Robin Furth also describes it as "a ten year long night" and I found this too (still from the Concordance):

I thought what he was amused about was the fact that Roland believed Walter to be dead. Because Roland initially thought they were Walter's bones and we all thought, "Ah, ok, Walter is not Flagg." ...