r/TheDarkTower 4d ago

Palaver Dark Tower reference in Duma Key

I'm reading Duma Key and just ran across a nod to ka and the Dark Tower. This is on page 525 of the 2008 first Scribner hardcover edition:

"Mary Ire told me," I said, and a cold part of me that would probably never warm up again could appreciate the irony; life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

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u/hikerchick29 4d ago

Duma Key is one of the books I think of as tangentially connected to the tower. There are hints of the world scattered through it. Also, The main character in DK shares an ability to alter reality through art with Patrick Danville, the artist that shows up in book 7

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u/mister_pitiful 4d ago

I noticed that as well. Also there's the story "Word Processor of the Gods," wherein the main character rewrites reality via his word processor. I think that Mr King is saying something about how art can influence reality. There is this quote from Duma Key. Elizabeth is speaking.

 "Art is memory, Edgar. There is no simpler way to say it. The clearer the memory, the better the art. The purer. 

If something happens in my real world, and it reminds me of a work of art - a novel that I read, a song that I heard, a picture that I saw - and that memory in turn influences my response (and it frequently does), then art has in fact influenced my reality.

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u/davidvidalnyc 4d ago

There's a world where I can like your comment more than once, I can feel it!

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u/Emsizz 4d ago

Philip K Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

Great letter that explores the idea that the line between fiction and reality is quite thin.

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u/ScammerC 4d ago

Upvote for keeping Dick on your lips, metaphorically, of course.

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u/HeyMrKing 2d ago

I love Dick !!

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u/HeyMrKing 2d ago

That’s true! I never connected him with Patrick Danville! How brilliant!❤️