Walter General Discussion: The Gunslinger **spoilers

[BillyxRansom]

I've responded to this already, but I feel I need to clarify my thoughts, which are the same as when I first posted my take. No one else seems to have said this either, as far as I can see. Not to the extent I believe it is, so I'm responding again.

I think what Walter meant is that he pities Roland. It scares him what Roland is capable of doing to himself, as I expect could be the case for anyone who is an onlooker, whether friend or foe, watching someone destroy themselves.

Walter/Flagg is a damned egotistical sonofabitch. So he is confident that Roland will fail, so it is only Roland's own self-destructive outlook that he fears, on behalf of Roland.

Roland's weapons do not hurt Walter, that is true. In fact he believes himself to be infallible, because, as has been stated, Roland hasn't got shit for an imagination.