I Just want to express my pokeberry like flights of fancy to find others who live in shadows or beams of The Dark Tower, I am a painter, writer, etc who found a copy of The Gunslinger back in the Eighties, and have been addicted since. I am much like E. Freemantle down to crutching on the beach and painting the future -only ten years in advance. That story rang so true to my own that the first section published prior to the book Duma Key, in Tin Man -had me crying like and old woman asking questions like."How does Sai King know so much about me?" Then when the book came I skipped up to the point after The Tin Man publication-the similiarities continued. Thanks for being there Sai King and others of The Tower. Long Days and pleasant nights. Come,comma,commalla. RSSippel aka Beambounder.