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Wizard and Glass

This book is dedicated to Julie Eugley and Marsha DeFilippo They answer the mail, and most of the mail for the last couple of years has been about Roland of Gilead - the gunslinger Basically, Julie and Marsha nagged ed the most effectively, so your name comes first

Rose

All hail the cri!

Her arooseflesh

Cuthbert, meanwhile, had already reloaded

But he and his love were no longer children

S little teeth

There they died together-o

Of the three of them, only Roland saw her It cut the oldexploded The dark tower rearing to the sky The wicked witch of the East ARGUEMENT

Wizard and Glass is the fourth volu's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came "

The first voluer, tells how Roland of Gilead pursues and at last catches Walter, the man in black, who pretended friendship with Roland's father but who actually served Marten, a great sorcerer Catching the half-huoal but only a means to an end: Roland wants to reach the Dark Tohere he hopes the quickening destruction of Mid-World may be halted, perhaps even reversed

Roland is a kind of knight, the last of his breed, and the Tower is his obsession, his only reason for living when first we meet him We learn of an early test of manhood forced upon him by Marten, who has seduced Roland's mother Marten expects Roland to fail this test and to be "sent west," his father's guns forever denied hi the testdue mostly to his clever choice of weapon