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(Gwendy just hopes the Beckster isn’t a female version of HAL 9000).
People are turning away from women’s rights, from science, from the very notion of equality. They’re turning away from truth. Politics aside, somebody needs to stand up and make them look at all the stuff it’s easier and more comfortable not to believe in.
Magowan was an avowed fiscal conservative, declaring he wouldn’t allow tax-and-spend progressives to mortgage the futures of his constituents’ grandchildren, but he had no problem with clear-cutting Maine’s forests and removing the commercial fishing bans in protected areas. His attitude seemed to be that the grandchildren he was always blathering about could deal with those things when the time came.
Adesh and Jafari move out of his way, a couple of swimming trout making way for an overfed seal.
What she knew about Derry wasn’t good. It was a dark and dreary town with a violent history. There were an unsettling number of child murders and disappearances lurking in its past, as well as detailed documentation of strange sightings and weird goings-on. Toss in a series of deadly floods and the fact that Derry was home to one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT communities in the state, and you had yourself a place that most non-locals avoided like poison sumac.
As recently as a decade before, such a despicable ad would have torpedoed any chance of Paul Magowan holding on to his Senate seat. But this was a brave new world, populated by a brand-new breed of seemingly shameless GOP candidates.
There was jealousy, as well. She thought of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: “It’s mine, precious, my birthday present.” Gwendy didn’t want to feel that way about the box, but she did.
“Maybe the clown took him.”
Plus, paranoid fantasies sometimes accompany Alzheimer’s. That was just one of the fun facts about the illness she discovered (and now wishes she hadn’t) on the Internet. There’s even a name for it: sundowning. And since sundown up here happens roughly every ninety minutes, that leaves plenty of opportunity for weird thoughts.
the Tower is strong.”
