The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Stephen King
Book Two
Lud
A Heap of Broken Images
IV
Town and Ka-tet
18
Until they met the old people in River Crossing, Susannah had seen Roland strictly in terms of television shows she rarely watched: "Cheyenne," "The Rifleman", and, of course, the archetype of them all, "Gunsmoke". That was one she had sometimes listened to on the radio with her father before it came on TV (she thought of how foreign the idea of radio drama would be to Eddie and Jake and smiled - Roland's was not the only world which had moved on). She could still remember what the narrator said at the beginning of every one of those radio playlets: "It makes a man watchful ... and a little lonely."
Until River Crossing, that had summed up Roland perfectly for her. He was not broad-shouldered, as Marshal Dillion had been, not anywhere near as tall, and his face seemed to her more that of a tired poet than a wild-west lawman, but she had still seen him as an existential version of that make-believe Kansas peace officer, whose only mission in life, (other than an occasional drink in The Longbranch with his friends Doc and Kitty) had been to Clean Up Dodge.
Now she understood that Roland had once been much more than a cop riding a Dali'esque range at the end of the world. He had been a diplomat; a mediator; perhaps even a teacher. Most of all, he had been a soldier of what these people called "the White," by which she guessed they meant the civilizing forces that kept people from killing each other enough of the time to allow some sort of progress. In his time he had been more wandering knight-errant than bounty hunter. And in many ways, this still *was* his time; the people of River Crossing had certainly thought so. Why else would they have knelt in the dust to receive his blessing?
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 08/05/08 2:10 PM
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http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-10/news/mn-64494_1_new-cia-director
Los Angeles Times
Senate Votes 98-0 to Install Deutch as CIA Director
May 10, 1995 From Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Without a ripple of dissent, the Senate voted Tuesday to install John M. Deutch as the new CIA director.
By a count of 98 to 0, the Senate handed Deutch the job he initially turned down after President Clinton's first CIA director, R. James Woolsey, resigned in January.
Deutch is to be sworn in as the 17th director of the CIA today. Adm. William O. Studeman, who has been acting director since Woolsey left, will revert to being deputy director. It is not clear how long Studeman will stay.
In brief remarks to reporters, Deutch, 56, said he was heartened by the Senate vote. He reiterated his intention to shake up the agency.
"There will be some changes in the leadership," he said. "That's not going to be a bloodletting. That's going to be a team affair." He mentioned no names but said the exact nature of the personnel changes would be clear in a few weeks.
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 10780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
From 3/14/1943 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 9314—REVOKING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8955 OF DECEMBER 1, 1941, EXTENDING THE CLASSIFICATION ACT OF 1923, AS AMENDED, TO CERTAIN POSITIONS IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT AND ESTABLISHING A SALARY DIFFERENTIAL THEREFOR ) To 9/17/1972 ( premiere US TV series "M*A*S*H" ) is 10780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
From 9/24/1975 ( premiere US film "Three Days of the Condor" ) To 5/9/1995 is 7167 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/17/1985 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks Announcing the Establishment of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management ) is 7167 days
From 1/15/1959 ( premiere US TV series "Special Agent 7" ) To 7/21/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Small Arms Operator & Roving Security Patrol ) is 10780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
From 11/1/1962 ( the United States determines that Soviet Union missiles in Cuba have been dismantled ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
From 4/27/1933 ( Karl Jansky "Electrical Disturbances Apparently of Extraterrestrial Origin" ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 21560 days
21560 = 10780 + 10780
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
From 9/9/1961 ( John Kennedy - Joint Statement With Prime Minister Macmillan on Soviet Rejection of Proposal To End Atmospheric Nuclear Tests ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 10780 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1995 is 10780 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51333
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Statement on Senate Confirmation of John Deutch as Director of Central Intelligence
May 9, 1995
I am very pleased with the Senate's overwhelming 98-0 vote to confirm John Deutch as Director of Central Intelligence. The Senate's action is further affirmation of the outstanding leadership and management skills John Deutch will bring to the intelligence community and the CIA. I have the greatest confidence that he will bring a renewed sense of purpose, direction, and spirit to the CIA and the intelligence community.
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 13598 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/25/2003 is 13598 days
See also other post by me on this topic: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-dark-tower-i-gunslinger.html
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gunslinger-stephen-king/1102002419?ean=9780451210845
Barnes & Noble
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower Series #1) (Revised Edition)
by Stephen King
Read an Excerpt
INTRODUCTION
III
About three years after that accident I did a book signing for From a Buick 8 at a Borders store in Dearborn, Michigan. When one guy got to the head of the line, he said he was really, really glad that I was still alive. (I get this a lot, and it beats the shit out of “Why the hell didn’t you die?”)
“I was with this good friend of mine when we heard you got popped,” he said. “Man, we just started shaking our heads and saying ‘There goes the Tower, it’s tilting, it’s falling, ahhh, shit, he’ll never finish it now.’ ”
A version of the same idea had occurred to me—the troubling idea that, having built the Dark Tower in the collective imagination of a million readers, I might have a responsibility to make it safe for as long as people wanted to read about it. That might be for only five years; for all I know, it might be five hundred. Fantasy stories, the bad as well as the good (even now, someone out there is probably reading Varney the Vampire or The Monk), seem to have long shelf lives. Roland’s way of protecting the Tower is to try to remove the threat to the Beams that hold the Tower up. I would have to do it, I realized after my accident, by finishing the gunslinger’s story.
During the long pauses between the writing and publication of the first four Dark Tower tales, I received hundreds of “pack your bags, we’re going on a guilt trip” letters. In 1998 (when I was laboring under the mistaken impression that I was still basically nineteen, in other words), I got one from an “82-yr-old Gramma, don’t mean to Bother You w/My Troubles BUT!! very Sick These Days.” The Gramma told me she probably had only a year to live (“14 Mo’s at Outside, Cancer all thru Me”), and while she didn’t expect me to finish Roland’s tale in that time just for her, she wanted to know if I couldn’t please (please) just tell her how it came out. The line that wrenched my heart (although not quite enough to start writing again) was her promise to “not tell a Single Soul.” A year later—probably after the accident that landed me in the hospital—one of my assistants, Marsha DiFilippo, got a letter from a fellow on death row in either Texas or Florida, wanting to know essentially the same thing: how does it come out? (He promised to take the secret to the grave with him, which gave me the creeps.)
I would have given both of these folks what they wanted—a summary of Roland’s further adventures—if I could have done, but alas, I couldn’t. I had no idea of how things were going to turn out with the gunslinger and his friends. To know, I have to write. I once had an outline, but I lost it along the way. (It probably wasn’t worth a tin shit, anyway.) All I had was a few notes (“Chussit, chissit, chassit, something-something-basket” reads one lying on the desk as I write this). Eventually, starting in July of 2001, I began to write again. I knew by then I was no longer nineteen, nor exempt from any of the ills to which the flesh is heir. I knew I was going to be sixty, maybe even seventy. And I wanted to finish my story before the bad Patrol Boy came for the last time. I had no urge to be filed away with The Canterbury Tales and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
The result—for better or worse—lies before you, Constant Reader, whether you reading this are starting with Volume One or are preparing for Volume Five. Like it or hate it, the story of Roland is now done. I hope you enjoy it.
As for me, I had the time of my life.
Stephen King
January 25, 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Deutch
John M. Deutch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) is an American physical chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 15, 1996.
CIA Director tenure
In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed him Director of Central Intelligence. As Deutch was initially reluctant to accept the appointment, the position was conferred with Cabinet rank, a perquisite ultimately retained by successor George Tenet through the end of the Clinton administration. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Deutch continued the policy of his predecessor R. James Woolsey to declassify records pertaining to U.S. covert operations during the Cold War.
Deutch fell out of favor with the Clinton administration because of public testimony he gave to Congress on Iraq. Specifically Deutch testified that Saddam Hussein was stronger than he was four years ago and the CIA might never be able to remedy the issue. Clinton replaced Deutch after he had won re-election.
https://www.facebook.com/kerry.burgess.790/posts/1916525508622709
Kerry Burgess
June 18, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Was Condor qualified with a handgun?
"Two years military service, Signal Corps, Telephone lineman, switchboard maintenance, 6 months overseas, Separated 9/61, worked at communication research college."
The question was: Is he qualified with a handgun?
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38784
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks Announcing the Establishment of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management
June 17, 1985
Ladies and gentlemen, during the past 4 years we have made great progress in rebuilding our national defense and in confronting the challenge of effective defense management. Credit rightly goes to our civilian defense leadership, particularly Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. It also goes to our men and women in uniform and to the American people for their support in our efforts.
We've accomplished a great deal, and we have much to be proud of, but there's still a great deal left to do. When our administration began its activities, the problem of defense management we knew would be demanding and difficult, almost as difficult as I had getting that sentence out. [Laughter] There were various barriers to efficient management, including legislative barriers, that stubbornly defied our efforts to remove them. And that's why I appointed an individual with unmatched management credentials when I appointed Cap Weinberger. And while overseeing our much-needed buildup of our defensive strength, Cap has done a tremendous job at ferreting out waste and fraud. That's one of the reasons why you hear about it in the news.
But a public misconception has developed from all of this, a misconception born, at least in part, of a drumbeat of propaganda and demagoguery that denies the real accomplishment of these last 4 years. The situation reminds me of the old saying, "Don't clean the skeletons out of the closet. They'll accuse you of murder."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821721/releaseinfo
IMDb
Special Agent 7 (TV Series)
Border Masquerade (1959)
Release Info
USA 15 January 1959
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821721/
IMDb
Special Agent 7 (1958– )
Border Masquerade
30min Crime, Drama Episode aired 15 January 1959
Season 1 Episode 1
Lloyd Nolan ... Special Agent Philip Conroy
Storyline
Special Agent Conroy uses a Mexican bandit to lure an American tax dodger back to the United States.
Release Date: 15 January 1959 (USA)
http://www.tv.com/shows/mash/mash-the-pilot-43200/
tv.com
M*A*S*H Season 1 Episode 1
M*A*S*H - The Pilot
Aired Sep 17, 1972 on CBS
AIRED: 9/17/72
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/releaseinfo
IMDb
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Release Info
USA 24 September 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/fullcredits
IMDb
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Full Cast & Crew
Robert Redford ... Joseph Turner
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https://www.instagram.com/bluetreeny/
Blue Tree New York
album: "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" (1972)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimcroce/operatorthatsnotthewayitfeels.html
AZ
JIM CROCE
"Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)"
Operator, well could you help me place this call
See, the number on the match book is old and faded
She's living in L.A
With my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call
'Cause I can't read the number that you just gave me
There's something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about the love that I thought would save me
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
No, no, no, no
That's not the way it feels
Operator, well let's forget about this call
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Ah, you've been so much more then kind
You can keep the dime
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
- posted by Kerry Burgess 09:47 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 25 July 2018
