This book is dedicated to Julie Eugley and Marsha DeFilippo. They answer the mail, and most of the mail for the last couple of years has been about Roland of Gilead - the gunslinger.Basically, Julie and Marsha nagged me back to the word processor. Julie, you nagged the most effectively, so your name comes first. Rose All hail the crimson king! Her arms and belly and breasts breaking out in gooseflesh Cuthbert, meanwhile, had already reloaded But he and his love were no longer children Smiling lips revealed cunning little teeth There they died together-o Of the three of them, only Roland saw her It cut the old man's throat efficiently enough A flash as the big-bang exploded The dark tower rearing to the sky The wicked witch of the East ARGUEMENT Wizard and Glass is the fourth volume of a longer tale inspired by Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The first volume, The Gunslinger, tells how Roland of Gilead pursues and at last catches Walter, the man in black, who pretended friendship with Roland's father but who actually served Marten, a great sorcerer. Catching the half-human Walter is not Roland's goal but only a means to an end: Roland wants to reach the Dark Tower, where he hopes the quickening destruction