The Elf Wallpaper?

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Robert Gray

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What is the significance of the elves and roses wallpaper in the house on Neibolt Street? Jake encounters the same wallpaper at the Dutch Hill Mansion in The Wastelands.

This is one of those Easter Eggs which is rather thought provoking. In Danse Macabre, Sai King talks a lot about the order versus chaos, i.e. Apollonian versus Dionysian states of being. In those discussions he even referred to himself, the author, as a possible capering agent of chaos. The description was not unlike the capering elves depicted on the wallpaper. There might be deeper meaning, but I often take the wallpaper more as a lurid signpost that you are entering Dionysian territory. The center will not hold. Beware.
 

Grillo

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I agree with you both, Robert Gray and GNTLGNT, that it's something of window dressing or a signpost; I don't think we'll ever find out an exact meaning. I think what puzzles mem though, is what does the connection tell us about Pennywise and his connection to the Dark Tower?

I've always viewed It as a vast, nearly all-powerful entity like Cthulhu or something, whereas The Dark Tower seems to suggest maybe he's more of a run of the mill demon, like the Dutch Hill Mansion demon, or Dandelo, who really seems pretty weak compared to Pennywise.
 

GNTLGNT

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I agree with you both, Robert Gray and GNTLGNT, that it's something of window dressing or a signpost; I don't think we'll ever find out an exact meaning. I think what puzzles mem though, is what does the connection tell us about Pennywise and his connection to the Dark Tower?

I've always viewed It as a vast, nearly all-powerful entity like Cthulhu or something, whereas The Dark Tower seems to suggest maybe he's more of a run of the mill demon, like the Dutch Hill Mansion demon, or Dandelo, who really seems pretty weak compared to Pennywise.
...in the microcosm of our version of the world, Pennywise is all powerful-but in the macroverse, he's chump change...bigger and uglier things crawled from the Prim than clown boy...