![]() ![]() In his introduction to my Dark Tower Concordance, Stephen King did me a great honor: he named me Roland Deschain’s Boswell. We were on the Beam, and the Tower awaited us. “It’s Roland and the man in black!” Only when we reached the Ellsworth turnoff did those crows veer into the pinewoods, but they’d told me all I needed to know. For the next three miles, those crows soared ahead of the car like a supernatural cavalcade. Pulling out of my dirt driveway and onto the empty Surry road, I looked up. Now, for the first time, Roland was coming to the big screen. For the last seventeen years of my life, I’ve been traveling with Roland Deschain and his ka-tet, sharing their khef and ka. I was so nervous that my stomach was in knots. There Are Other Worlds Than These: Reflections on the Dark Tower Movie Posted: August 2nd, 2017 10:19:19 pm by Robin FurthĪt 4:19 pm on a hot August afternoon, I climbed into my father’s old VW to drive to Bangor, Maine. ![]()
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