The gray waists

[Tiny]

I've all ways wanted to ask MR KIng if the term gray waist is actually based
On a real waist paper basket?. A basket he used (maybe many diif baskets)
To throw away stuff he'd written but didn't like. If it is based on a real
Waist paper basket, was it a gray one and was it the one Carrie ended up
In? Until his better half fished it out?

I believe it was (is) a real object

 

[Tiny]

Not many understand this post

 

[Moderator]

Do you have an example of when he used this, i.e. his words in context?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Not many understand this post

....oh I understand it just fine, what I don't get is your curiosity with this type of minutiae, but to each their own....

 

[Tiny]

Oh my goodness , the gray waist is where o
D character go to rest (or maybe die) and in some strange
Cases some character , they come back.
Iv never heard King talk much about it, I think he
Said Bango Skank was such a character.
Maybe Callahan and Danny skated there for a while
...I'm not sue

 

[GNTLGNT]

Oh my goodness , the gray waist is where o
D character go to rest (or maybe die) and in some strange
Cases some character , they come back.
Iv never heard King talk much about it, I think he
Said Bango Skank was such a character.
Maybe Callahan and Danny skated there for a while
...I'm not sue

...oh for heaven's sake Tiny!...you're getting your authors way confused... you are referencing "The Grey Havens" from Tolkien's LOTR trilogy!...King had absolutely nothing to do with this....

 

[Srbo]

No idea what this is about.
But for some reason I like it...

 

[Out of Order]

 

[not_nadine]

 

[Srbo]

HAHAHAHAHA! :

 

[Kurben]

Consider me baffled.....

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

And me, I'm flummoxed...

 

[danie]

Consider me baffled.....

And me, I'm flummoxed...

I puzzed and puzzed until my puzzler was sore.

 

[not_nadine]

 

[Tiny]

Mr Stephen King said that the Gray Waists is where old characters go to rest

I am almost sure of this. Maybe he was quoating Tolkien or just inventing
his own version of something Tokein said , but I believe he has his "term"
"Gray Waists"

im like %90 sure

 

[Tiny]

An intelligent robot meet a human for the first time.
The Robot staired at the human and asked "Are you alive?"
the human answered "yes...Of course"
The robot tilted is head and said
"prove it"
...the human blinked

 

[muskrat]

Mr Stephen King said that the Gray Waists is where old characters go to rest

I am almost sure of this. Maybe he was quoating Tolkien or just inventing
his own version of something Tokein said , but I believe he has his "term"
"Gray Waists"

im like %90 sure

He indeed does mention the Grey Havens in, let's see, book Seven (or eight, now) of DT--in reference to Jake, Oy, Suze. Yessir.

 

[Tiny]

Hhmmm maybe I'm wrong, I could swear he said GrayWaists...at some point, coining his own
Term , not Tolkens...maybe I'm wrong

 

[not_nadine]

Hhmmm maybe I'm wrong, I could swear he said GrayWaists...at some point, coining his own
Term , not Tolkens...maybe I'm wrong

Found "The Gray Waste" under Dungeons and Dragons Role Playing game.

Gray Waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Gray Waste is a spatially infinite plane, consisting of three layers or sub-planes, sometimes referred to as the Three Glooms. The River Styx flows through the first layer, Oinos, connecting it with the other evil-aligned Lower Planes. The Gray Waste shares its borders with the neighbouring planes of the Tarterian Depths of Carceri and the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna; travel is possible between the Gray Waste and these planes at certain locations

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