| Childe Roland (yes, Robert Browning's Roland - and also Stephen King's Roland) is a twelfth century Troubadour galantly fighting against all the forces that would deny him the bliss of his own heart only to discover that his heart and everyone else's is growing through the happily endless journey of the twin-rayed soul in love with the twin-rayed self - for He, too, is come through this place and the sun and moon, even the stars, are not where they are. And so one of Roland's first great discoveries or re-discoveries is the magic of irony, that all things live of themselves and with the creative Spirit. This, in turn, leads him to the conclusion that forthwith the science of soul, only consciousness can study consciousness. Hence, his and our bliss. Hence, Childe and Reader mayhaps are not where they are, but in a place richly and, at times, darkly familiar - both beyond time and through time, both transcendent to life and from life. In short, The Dark Tower is a concordance of our human maker, our Poet, through any and every age, for the sake of the daimon of culture, what author Duane Elgin (Awakening Earth) aptly calls our "literacy of consciousness". The Dark Tower is about love. |
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