Greetings to all, new to the forums and wanted to discuss my favorite King novel. I've been hard pressed to find another place to talk in depth about it. I finished it again recently and had a few thoughts to get things started:
IT and the Turtle: The two are obviously counters to each other, consumption, creation, etc. I wonder exactly if the Turtle is indeed Maturin. It's a popular theory, but nothing stated as fact. The turtle does not seem to bother itself with IT or anything relating to such. Yet we have IT, who hates the Turtle with a passion. That seems to be the end of it, except for the mysterious Other; who is likely Gan. I wonder what your ideas are on IT's place within the Dark Tower perspective, a todash monster? Demon Elemental? Something else entirely? Im thinking the latter. And why exactly it seems to hate the Turtle so much. That seems obvious I suppose, but the hate seems deeply rooted to IT.
(Spoilers for Insomnia ahead.)
IT and the Turtle: The two are obviously counters to each other, consumption, creation, etc. I wonder exactly if the Turtle is indeed Maturin. It's a popular theory, but nothing stated as fact. The turtle does not seem to bother itself with IT or anything relating to such. Yet we have IT, who hates the Turtle with a passion. That seems to be the end of it, except for the mysterious Other; who is likely Gan. I wonder what your ideas are on IT's place within the Dark Tower perspective, a todash monster? Demon Elemental? Something else entirely? Im thinking the latter. And why exactly it seems to hate the Turtle so much. That seems obvious I suppose, but the hate seems deeply rooted to IT.
(Spoilers for Insomnia ahead.)
At the end of Insomnia, the Crimson King uses the Deadlights to "ascend" another level of the tower. As we know, IT is the Deadlights. As I recall, the King uses the lights that are around Derry. What do you make of this? I wonder if perhaps not all of IT is gone from Derry.