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well, it looks to me like the love of Roland, Eddie and Susannah meant far more than anything he had, or expected to have, in his original life. I am not crazy about him hardly ever giving his...

I think the other way, especially for father - he must have wanted to have an heir so hard that he totally disregarded the real boy, eclipsed by the Ideal Heir he had in his mind.

Where's the Jake whom those parents used to have?

Yes. We don't know what that space could have been. It is possible to presume it was as long as it took for him to travel with Roland till he was dropped; long enough for his parents to go through...

er... I expect after he was run over they were called and had to go through all the nightmare of identification and burial. That's what bothered me most of all. However you treat your son, you can't...

It depends on how you look at the time line and the co-ordination of the universes. It seems to me that they must suffer exactly the same thing as Roland in the Waste Land, but I know there are...

But it's not a question of feelings. I think anybody would start losing their mind if they had two conflicting sets of memories.

yes... but how about their son having or not having been run over by a car?

I thought about that, too, in the light of what Roland had to go through in The Waste Lands (there was a boy - there was no boy).

they always seemed to me a little exaggerated as characters. As if Mr.King decided to make his own task easier, not making Jake face the horrible choice between the world behind the door and normal...

ditto