Algul Siento

It's probably really only my thousandth-or-so reading, but I'm struck anew by the sheer banality of Algul Siento ("Blue Heaven"), where the Breakers live. The first time I read it, I found this a little anticlimactic. Now I believe it's deliberate and it works for me. The man in charge of destroying the Tower is a God-fearing former prison guard who has somehow convinced himself that he is doing the Lord's work by bringing about the end of all universes. King underlines this by having him kne...