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guthmund · 09-02-2004, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by warrrreagl

Earlier, I posted that "From a Buick 8" revolves around the number 19, but that was coming from someone who hadn't read it yet. Now that I'm reading it, I can't make the Dark Tower connection at all.

What is the connection between "From a Buick 8" and "Dark Tower?"

There is only one connection I can make and it's all speculative.

In Hearts in Atlantis there are a few spots in the story where he describes, from the boy's point of view, the cars the "low men" drive. I think that the driver that disappears in From a Buick 8 is a "low man" and that the 1954 Roadmaster? is a "low man's" car.

That's just the impression that I get. It seems like a lot of the same imagery is used, but I'd have to re-read them both to be certain.