Flagg saw it all and smiled, for now Prince Thomas, a young boy easily swayed to Flagg's own purposes, would rule the kingdom. Yet a tiny mouse is enough to bring him down, a mouse that chances upon a grain of Dragon Sand behind Peter's shelves and dies crying tears of fire and belching gray smoke. Roland's time is nearly over, though, and young Prince Peter, tall and handsome, the measure of a king in all ways, stands to inherit the realm. Through the spyhole it conceals, the court magician observes King Roland-old, weak, yet still a king. In four hundred years, he has walked it many times, in many guises, but now the passage serves its true purpose. The passage through the castle is dim, sensed by few and walked by only one.
A dog is just as eager to lick the hand of a bad master as he is to lick the hand of a good one, because dogs don't know the difference between good and bad.A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards-as only Stephen King can tell it! Dogs can be brave, but they may also be cowards that will howl in the dark or run away with their tails between their legs. Dogs are great pets because they are loyal, but if a pet is all a man is, he is a bad man, I think. When dogs are excited and confused, they may bite when men are excited and confused, they may fight. Dogs are friendly and stupid, and that's the way most men and women are when they are drunk.
But there are few devils outside of made-up stories, Pete - most bad people are more like dogs than devils. Our preachers say that our natures are partly of God and partly of Old Man Splitfoot. 'These are the two natures of man,' she said. It says dog.' The sadness in her voice quenched Peter's excitement at once. Now write it backward and see what you find.'
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