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The Colorado Kid :: Кинг Стивен
Страница: 78 из 81Now I will wait for my mail, both e— and of the snail variety, andsee howyou guys do with him.
I don’t want to belabor the point, but before I leave you, I ask you to consider the fact that we live in aweb of mystery, and have simply gotten so used to the fact that we have crossed out the word and replaced it with one we like better, that one beingreality. Where do we come from? Where were we before we were here? Don’t know. Where are we going? Don’t know. A lot of churches have what they assure us are the answers, but most of us have a sneaking suspicion all that might be a conjob laid down to fill the collection plates. In the meantime, we’re in a kind of compulsory dodgeball game as we freefall from Wherever to Ain’t Got A Clue. Sometimes bombs go off and sometimes the planes land okay and sometimes the blood tests come back clean and sometimes the biopsies come back positive. Most times the bad telephone call doesn’t come in the middle of the night but sometimes it does, and either way we know we’re going to drive pedaltothemetal into the mystery eventually.
It’s crazy to be able to live with that and stay sane, but it’s also beautiful. I write to find out what I think, and what I found out writingThe Colorado Kid was that maybe—I just saymaybe — it’s the beauty of the mystery that allows us to live sane as we pilot our fragile bodies through this demolitionderby world. We always want to reach for the lights in the sky, and we always want to know where the Colorado Kid (the world is full of Colorado Kids) came from. Wanting might be better than knowing. I don’t say that for sure; I only suggest it. But if you tell me I fell down on the job and didn’t tell all of this story there was to tell, I say you’re all wrong.
On that Iam sure.
Stephen King
January 31, 2005
Raves for the Work of Stephen King!
“Excellent, psychologically textured…Stephen King is so widely acknowledged as America’s master of paranormal terrors that you can forget his real genius is for the everyday.”
— New York Times Book Review
“Mr. King makes palpable the longing and regret that arise out of calamity, and deftly renders the kindness and pettiness that can mark smalltown life.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“The author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modernday counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Extraordinarily vivid…an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt.”
— Playboy
“Stephen King is superb.
I don’t want to belabor the point, but before I leave you, I ask you to consider the fact that we live in aweb of mystery, and have simply gotten so used to the fact that we have crossed out the word and replaced it with one we like better, that one beingreality. Where do we come from? Where were we before we were here? Don’t know. Where are we going? Don’t know. A lot of churches have what they assure us are the answers, but most of us have a sneaking suspicion all that might be a conjob laid down to fill the collection plates. In the meantime, we’re in a kind of compulsory dodgeball game as we freefall from Wherever to Ain’t Got A Clue. Sometimes bombs go off and sometimes the planes land okay and sometimes the blood tests come back clean and sometimes the biopsies come back positive. Most times the bad telephone call doesn’t come in the middle of the night but sometimes it does, and either way we know we’re going to drive pedaltothemetal into the mystery eventually.
It’s crazy to be able to live with that and stay sane, but it’s also beautiful. I write to find out what I think, and what I found out writingThe Colorado Kid was that maybe—I just saymaybe — it’s the beauty of the mystery that allows us to live sane as we pilot our fragile bodies through this demolitionderby world. We always want to reach for the lights in the sky, and we always want to know where the Colorado Kid (the world is full of Colorado Kids) came from. Wanting might be better than knowing. I don’t say that for sure; I only suggest it. But if you tell me I fell down on the job and didn’t tell all of this story there was to tell, I say you’re all wrong.
On that Iam sure.
Stephen King
January 31, 2005
Raves for the Work of Stephen King!
“Excellent, psychologically textured…Stephen King is so widely acknowledged as America’s master of paranormal terrors that you can forget his real genius is for the everyday.”
— New York Times Book Review
“Mr. King makes palpable the longing and regret that arise out of calamity, and deftly renders the kindness and pettiness that can mark smalltown life.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“The author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modernday counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Extraordinarily vivid…an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt.”
— Playboy
“Stephen King is superb.