I'm rereading "IT", which I do distressingly frequently, and just got to p. 510 in my well-worn paperback. Let me type this out:
"Now, standing on in the fading drizzle in front of a Trustworthy Hardware Store that had been a pawnshop in 1958 (Frati Brothers, Ben recalled, the double windows always full of pistols and rifles and straight-razors and guitars hung up by their necks like exotic animals),..."
Frati Brothers.
P. 164 of my hardback of 11/22/63. "'See you glancin at that table back there,' a voice said at my elbow...I looked around and saw a small man with slicked-back hair, a round face, and lively black eyes. He looked like cheerful chipmunk. He grinned at me and stuck out a child-sized hand. On his forearm, a bare-breasted mermaid flapped her flippy tail and winked one eye. 'Charles Frati. But you can call me Chaz. Everyone does.'"
P. 626: "'You could try Frank Frati, over in Fort Worth. He runs a pawn shop.'"
It: 1986. 11/22/63: 2011.
I marvel at the fact that King was able to tie that together. That in 1984 or 1985, he wrote a minor detail of Ben's recollection that doesn't recur ANYWHERE else in the book, and then more than 20 years later, turns the Frati brothers into part of the action of another book.
Obviously, Derry is part of the King universe. Sure, you would expect SOME part of The Losers' Club of 1958 would show up, but this was ONE SENTENCE. It's not like the Frati brothers played a PART in IT.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.
"Now, standing on in the fading drizzle in front of a Trustworthy Hardware Store that had been a pawnshop in 1958 (Frati Brothers, Ben recalled, the double windows always full of pistols and rifles and straight-razors and guitars hung up by their necks like exotic animals),..."
Frati Brothers.
P. 164 of my hardback of 11/22/63. "'See you glancin at that table back there,' a voice said at my elbow...I looked around and saw a small man with slicked-back hair, a round face, and lively black eyes. He looked like cheerful chipmunk. He grinned at me and stuck out a child-sized hand. On his forearm, a bare-breasted mermaid flapped her flippy tail and winked one eye. 'Charles Frati. But you can call me Chaz. Everyone does.'"
P. 626: "'You could try Frank Frati, over in Fort Worth. He runs a pawn shop.'"
It: 1986. 11/22/63: 2011.
I marvel at the fact that King was able to tie that together. That in 1984 or 1985, he wrote a minor detail of Ben's recollection that doesn't recur ANYWHERE else in the book, and then more than 20 years later, turns the Frati brothers into part of the action of another book.
Obviously, Derry is part of the King universe. Sure, you would expect SOME part of The Losers' Club of 1958 would show up, but this was ONE SENTENCE. It's not like the Frati brothers played a PART in IT.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.
