You kill with your heart

"See this now. See it well.

A man, dressed all in ebony, sprinting across a white, blinding and waterless desert. He makes deep noises in his throat, do ya not hear them? Might be the ragged despair of a rabbit approaching its limits. Might be the chuckling of a fox planning to turn the tables on its hunter. Might be either or both, whatever pleases ya. Can´t say for sure. All I can say for sure is this:

The Man in Black fled across the desert... and the gunslinger followed.

If the gunslinger looks familiar to you, well, that´s as may be. Echoes of him have been seen in tales spun across many other places, in many other ways. Just as stories of a great flood, for instance, cut across the consciousness of all mankind, so too does the gunslinger.

He is iconic and legend and your best friend, praise the Man Jesus, and your worst enemy. Your damnation or your salvation, and sometimes not even "or" but "and", do ya kennit? The only thing he shares with his quarry is that he is known by many names, if one such as he can be said to be "known" at all.

The gunslinger is a creature of what ye would call destiny and he calls "ka". Ka is a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started. The gunslinger´s ka turns toward an inevitable goal...

...a Dark Tower.

But as the wheel turns, it also leads him back toward that which is long past. Friends, loved ones, a land once thriving, now dead... and a father whose face must never be forgotten."

Pues sí. Éste es un post excluyente y que para nada viene a cuento, pero ha caído en mis manos el primero de los cómics de la saga de La Torre Oscura, en inglés y con su fundita de plástico. No he podido evitar dejar constancia en este blog de mi enfermizo y ligeramente homosexual amor hacia Rolando Deschain de Gilead, hijo de Steven, de la línea de Eld.

Esta ciudad saca mi lado más friki.

Largos días y placenteras noches.

(dedicado a Pepe y a Laura, los compis del ka-tet)

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