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Doyleness5

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I run into this problem a lot while reading Stephen King. I've read his work pretty extensively, and in nearly every book I've read he either alludes to something that doesn't exist, uses a word weirdly, or says something in general that doesn't quite make sense. I then Google it, and usually turn up so zilcho. Case in point, I just finished Rose Madder (which was kind of terrible) and I remember Norman Daniels talking to a dim witted cashier that couldn't speak properly and I couldn't decode it for my life and Google was also no help. In the same book, he refers to a toga as a zat which also doesn't exist.
 

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I run into this problem a lot while reading Stephen King. I've read his work pretty extensively, and in nearly every book I've read he either alludes to something that doesn't exist, uses a word weirdly, or says something in general that doesn't quite make sense. I then Google it, and usually turn up so zilcho. Case in point, I just finished Rose Madder (which was kind of terrible) and I remember Norman Daniels talking to a dim witted cashier that couldn't speak properly and I couldn't decode it for my life and Google was also no help. In the same book, he refers to a toga as a zat which also doesn't exist.
Welcome to the message board. That's pretty much how I found this place oh... about 14 years ago. (I was looking up the Opopanax feather) :biggrin2:
 

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I run into this problem a lot while reading Stephen King. I've read his work pretty extensively, and in nearly every book I've read he either alludes to something that doesn't exist, uses a word weirdly, or says something in general that doesn't quite make sense. I then Google it, and usually turn up so zilcho. Case in point, I just finished Rose Madder (which was kind of terrible) and I remember Norman Daniels talking to a dim witted cashier that couldn't speak properly and I couldn't decode it for my life and Google was also no help. In the same book, he refers to a toga as a zat which also doesn't exist.
Do you know which part of the book that was in? If you have the book handy could you maybe give me a page number? I have a hard cover of that one (first edition I think but I don't know if that makes a difference).

I am Canadian, not American but I often can figure out what he is trying to get at.

Would love to be able to help you with this!
 
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I run into this problem a lot while reading Stephen King. I've read his work pretty extensively, and in nearly every book I've read he either alludes to something that doesn't exist, uses a word weirdly, or says something in general that doesn't quite make sense. I then Google it, and usually turn up so zilcho. Case in point, I just finished Rose Madder (which was kind of terrible) and I remember Norman Daniels talking to a dim witted cashier that couldn't speak properly and I couldn't decode it for my life and Google was also no help. In the same book, he refers to a toga as a zat which also doesn't exist.

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Probably too late to edit but I found two copies of the paperback version as well - was it the paperback version you were reading?
 
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Yes it was the paperback. The page is 294 for the dim witted cashier bit and for the zat 418. I did figure out that he meant a toga by zat
"Yah wah niy-vole baddery widdat"

{You want a nine volt battery with that?}

"Dass waddit runs on - a niy-vole"

{That's what it runs on - a nine volt}

Doyleness5 - sorry I was off making macaroni & cheese and did not see your post until now :encouragement::m_pan:
 
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"Yah wah niy-vole baddery widdat"

{You want a nine volt battery with that?}

"Dass waddit runs on - a niy-vole"

{That's what it runs on - a nine volt}

Doyleness5 - sorry I was off making macaroni & cheese and did not see your post until now :encouragement::m_pan:
You're fine. Thank you. It was also the part after that I was confused on, where the cashier says two words and Norman understands them but does not enlighten the reader
 
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Hi again everyone. I ran into something in The Stand I didn't quite understand but it seemed to have some symbolism. Its the part where we first meet Randall Flagg, page 173 uncut edition, and is talking about how women *ahem* take him. It says they take him like "a ram with golden eyes or a black dog". The black dog I understand, they are harbingers of death or misfortune. Its the golden-eyed ram bit I don't get, although it does seem vaguely biblical. Any ideas anyone? *EDIT* On the same page I also found something about a weapon packed in the Cosmoline of screams. Cosmoline is a rust inhibitor so I didn't quite understand that either. Sorry guys I'm a little OCD about making sure I understand everything when I read.
 

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Hi again everyone. I ran into something in The Stand I didn't quite understand but it seemed to have some symbolism. Its the part where we first meet Randall Flagg, page 173 uncut edition, and is talking about how women *ahem* take him. It says they take him like "a ram with golden eyes or a black dog". The black dog I understand, they are harbingers of death or misfortune. Its the golden-eyed ram bit I don't get, although it does seem vaguely biblical. Any ideas anyone? *EDIT* On the same page I also found something about a weapon packed in the Cosmoline of screams. Cosmoline is a rust inhibitor so I didn't quite understand that either. Sorry guys I'm a little OCD about making sure I understand everything when I read.
...golden eyed ram is an allusion to Satanism and during the Second World War and beyond, it was common practice for the military to pack guns and armaments in cosmoline to keep them from rusting during shipments or storage....