While it is quite likely that Roland did overhear others trashing him in Room 628 and felt he wanted to write about this, the strange angels visiting me claimed they were “musing” around with him so while he was thinking he was writing about himself, they had him writing their story. Since they are freeloaders—although they would say it’s more like taking opportunity by the horns—this could be the case.
In their story, their chatter was overheard by listening with an ear to the wall to either the recordings or letters read aloud that the boys in 628 had come upon. They claim their chatter has so much more to do with the light of the world and the task of putting the world right than Roland’s life did but this is just talk and they don’t always tell the truth. And the boys in 628 heard about the lady left with the chore of shining the blinding light through the hearts and it is a dangerous task not readily understood by those who might beat the living shit out of her if they could catch her. Hopefully this part was cosmic humor …
The mirror-man had to do with her instructor who kept saying that he was working all his magic with mirrors which could have been hoo-hah but then mirrors did figure into some of it. This teacher was also a bad-ass beastly dude—Freddie Mercury’s hitman—and so it is the Badman’s Song. When sticks and stones could break her bones while she sows the seeds of love, it makes sense to send a Badman along for the ride …
The jigsaw pieces of a broken man referred to the tendency the angels would have of dissecting some of those they visited—hopefully for their own positive edification although I couldn’t be certain. And “but mind over matter—won’t you stop all your chatter” is like a line from a mind meld with them. So is “sweet talking boys who can do no wrong—when the stories are tall as the day is long”.
But since the stories are tall as the day is long, this could all have been their invention—although they sounded convincing to me. Still, I was a captive audience and we know how that goes … I guess songs can do double-duty ...
While it is quite likely that Roland did overhear others trashing him in Room 628 and felt he wanted to write about this, the strange angels visiting me claimed they were “musing” around with him so while he was thinking he was writing about himself, they had him writing their story. Since they are freeloaders—although they would say it’s more like taking opportunity by the horns—this could be the case.
In their story, their chatter was overheard by listening with an ear to the wall to either the recordings or letters read aloud that the boys in 628 had come upon. They claim their chatter has so much more to do with the light of the world and the task of putting the world right than Roland’s life did but this is just talk and they don’t always tell the truth. And the boys in 628 heard about the lady left with the chore of shining the blinding light through the hearts and it is a dangerous task not readily understood by those who might beat the living shit out of her if they could catch her. Hopefully this part was cosmic humor …
The mirror-man had to do with her instructor who kept saying that he was working all his magic with mirrors which could have been hoo-hah but then mirrors did figure into some of it. This teacher was also a bad-ass beastly dude—Freddie Mercury’s hitman—and so it is the Badman’s Song. When sticks and stones could break her bones while she sows the seeds of love, it makes sense to send a Badman along for the ride …
The jigsaw pieces of a broken man referred to the tendency the angels would have of dissecting some of those they visited—hopefully for their own positive edification although I couldn’t be certain. And “but mind over matter—won’t you stop all your chatter” is like a line from a mind meld with them. So is “sweet talking boys who can do no wrong—when the stories are tall as the day is long”.
But since the stories are tall as the day is long, this could all have been their invention—although they sounded convincing to me. Still, I was a captive audience and we know how that goes … I guess songs can do double-duty ...