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ManOfWesternesse
I'm not being funny here - but would King nessecarily know?
Besides the fact that he is the author?
Thing is though, until he writes it down that doesn't mean he is right. Think of the introductions and notes he's put in previous book where he described where he thought things were going, which turned out not to happen.
It's definitely interesting to get his point of view though and in this case I agree. The horn suggests there will be an end, but he's still got a way to go.
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Or maybe it was the first... :P *runs out of the room*
:lol: Well, the text at the end of DT7 tends to make that unlikely, i think?
True. Also the text at the start of revised version of The Gunslinger where Roland feels a strange thinness, almost as if he is at the Tower indicating that this is when he returns from a previous loop, i.e. this isn't his first.
As for whether or not Roland draws the same people, personally I think he does. I seem to remember a passage where Roland speaks something along the lines "Nothing but death can break Ka-tet" and that "Cort thought that not even that would break it." This makes sense when you consider the loop.
True, The Dark Tower suggests otherwise what with the Ka-Shume (or whatever it's called, the sense of breaking of a Ka-tet), and the way the surviving members seemed to drifted apart after the death of the other members, as if they were companions but no longer ka-tet. However this can be explained simply as a break down in their original connection, and as we know Susannah had dreams of (an) Eddie and Jake even then leading to their (re)uniting. In other words, theirs a loose connection, but it can be re-tightened (to borrow an electrical analogy.)