The Drawing of the Three II 1987

Prologue: The Sailor

Ch1 - Prologue

• subchapter 1
  • pg 18
    1. We read "Blood slimed the worn ironwood handgrips...". However, in "The Gunslinger" (Ch 1, pg 12) we were told Roland's guns are "...sandalwood, yellow and finely grained."
       • They are sandalwood again in (Reshuffle, reshuffle, subch. 13, pg 301).

The Prisoner

Ch1 - The Door

• subchapter 2
  • pg 26
    1. Roland is on the shore of the Western Sea and contemplates that "He had never seen such a body of water.". Yet "Wizard and Glass" is primarily a flashback from Roland's youth and much of the story takes place in Hambry which is on the coast of the Clean Sea.
  • pg 26-27
    1. Roland uses his right hand to check if he still had Walter's jawbone in his hippocket. Two problems.
       • Roland had put the jawbone in his left hippocket, so the left hand would have been the logical choice.
       • His right hand had just had two fingers cut off by the Lobstrosities (pg 17) so it would make more sense to reach with his left.
• subchapter 3
  • pg 31-32
    1. Roland begins walking North along the shore of the Western Sea. King then tells us the scenery was monotonous and unpleasant and we read "The sea to his right, the mountains to his left...". Roland is facing North, so the Sea should be on his Left.
    2. The East/West error is repeated in;
       • "Shuffle" (pg 179) when Eddie -while looking North-, shields the right side of his face from the western sun.
       • "Reshuffle (sub ch 8 pg291) when Eddie -again facing North-, "...looked to the right -west- with...".
• subchapter 6
  • pg 37
    1. Roland sees men wearing ties and has no trouble identifying them though they are different than ones he has seen before. But in The Gunslinger (Ch I pg 79) Jake tries to describe a tie to Roland, but Roland doesn't know what that is.
    2. Roland sees people reading "...papers covered with tiny words...broken here and there with pictures ..." and isn't able to identify them as newspapers. However, in "The Gunslinger" (Slow Mutants, Ch I, pg 183) Roland knew it was a newspaper in the hand of the mummified trainman's hand.
    3. He also is amazed that paper is casually use, yet had no similar reaction in "The Gunslinger".
  • pg 38
    1. Roland is stunned, when he -through Eddie's eyes-, sees a stewardess wearing pants. "This was nothing he had ever seen on a woman...". Yet in "The Gunslinger" (Ch V, pg 24), while Roland was in Tull, he saw three women wearing slacks.

Ch2 - Eddie Dean

• subchapter 2
  • pg 43
    1. Eddie thinks of women he's had in "...last third of his twenty-one years..." so he's 21 years old. Yet later (The Lady of the Shadows, Ch 3-Odetta on the other Side, subch. 6, pg 235) he tells Odetta he is twenty-three.
• subchapter 7
  • pg 50
    1. Eddie thinks of his boss named Emilio Balazar. Later (The Prisoner, Ch 4-The Tower, subch. 7, pg 106), the boss' name is given as Enrico Balazar.

Ch3 - Contact and Landing

• subchapter 9
  • pg 68
    1. Eddie's sister is called Selina. But in "The Waste Lands" she is called Gloria (Book 1 Jake, I-Bear and Bone, subchapter 3, pg 22)

Shuffle

• subchapter 1
  • pg 170-171
    1. Eddie tells Roland "I'm gonna go get some water...". Yet when he returns (pg 191), he is carrying wood.
    2. As Roland begins to heal, we read "The red lines creeping up his arms...". Only Roland's right arm was infected by the lobstrosities.
  • pg 177
    1. Roland recalls Cuthbert was always asking questions, and that he "...had died with one in his mouth". Yet in "The Gunslinger", (The Way Station, Ch I, pg 95) Roland remembed that Cuthbert always laughed and that he even died smiling.
    2. Roland recalls Cort dying of poison, nine weeks after the Presentation Ceremonies. Yet in "The Gunslinger" (Ch XX, pg 66) We were told Roland didn't know where Cort was.

The Lady of Shadows

Ch1 - Detta and Odetta

• subchapter 1
  • pg 185
    1. Stephen King uses a quote Alfred Adler regarding schizophrenia. He uses this to reference Detta Walker and Odetta Holmes split personality. Schizophrenia and multiple personality are not the same thing.
  • pg 186
    1. Odetta and her driver Andrew discuss JFK's assassination. Odetta remembers that was "Three months and two days" ago. Later however we are told that this is January 1965. Counting back three months and two days gives an assassination date of November 1964.
       • Kennedy was shot the November 22nd 1963. A date familiar to Stephen King readers due to King's 2011 book entitled "11/22/63".
• subchapter 4
  • pg 196
    1. King tells us that as Detta was shoplifting in Macy's and writes "..as she walked along the counter...". Walked? With no legs?
  • pg 200
    1. We are told Odetta's mother is named Alice, but in "The Waste Lands" (Book 1 Jake, Bear and Bone, Ch. 1, pg 15), she is called Sarah Walker Holmes.
• subchapter 7
  • pg 203
    1. Eddie recalls the film In the Heat of the Night, staring "Sidney Steiger and Rod Poitier". The actual stars were "Sidney Poitier" and "Rod Steiger". Each reader will have to decide for themselves if this is a true error or due to Eddie remembering it incorrectly.

Ch2 - Ringing the Changes

• subchapter 1
  • pg 212-213
    1. We read that when George Shaver arrived at the crash site at Idlewild, he saw an eyeball resting on a charred Samsonite suitcase, and a teddybear lying beside a child's red sneaker, with the child's foot still in it. Several lines later, this is contradicted when we are told it was a teddybear on the suitcase.
• subchapter 3
  • pg 217
    1. Two paramedics rode with George Shavers (intern) on the ambulance that picked up Odetta after she had been run over by the A train in 1959. However, Paramedics were first used, in the US, in 1966 in Manhattan.

4 - Detta on the Other Side

• subchapter 12
  • pg 267
    1. This subchapter starts with Roland using "...his last sure live cartridge..." to take one of the lobstrosities for dinner. The other rounds, had gotten wet at the beginning of the book and Roland wasn't sure they were reliable.
       • Why aren't they (Roland and Eddie) using the questionable rounds for taking such simple prey and saving the sure-fire rounds for real emergencies?
• subchapter 18
  • pg 277
    1. Detta rubs her temples. While her arms are tied to the wheelchair?

The Pusher

3 - Roland takes his Medicine

• subchapter 1
  • pg 339
    1. Odetta's name is given as "Odetta Walker". Her names are Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker.
• subchapter 7
  • pg 347
    1. We are told the owner of Clements Guns and Sporting Goods is Justin Clements. Yet the next subchapter (pg 349) his name changes to Arnold Clements.
  • pg 348
    1. As Roland -in Mort's body- tells his lie about the Gunshop clerk stealing his wallet, Officer O'Mearah thinks something is off about Mort. King writes "...years later there was a brief moment of epiphany when..." and tells about O'Mearah's watching a computer play tic-tac-toe and that the slight lag the computer had mirrored Mort's speech -due to Roland having to 'look up' fact in Mort's memory-. On the next page, when Roland/Mort pauses again we read "That slight pause. Like the machine..." (pg 348). Then again (pg 350), we are told that all thoughts of "...machines that played tic-tac-toe went out of his mind". There's a problem with this. Officer O'Mearah won't see that machine for several years, there's no way he can know about it now.
    2. A line reads "He remembered because Blue-Suit had had that some fucking habit." "some" should be "same".

4 - The Drawing

• subchapter 1
  • pg 372
    1. O'Mearah picks up the clerk's discarded 357 Magnum and we are told "It wouldn't fit in his holster so he stuffed it in his belt.". But Roland had taken his belt and holster (pg 357)
• subchapter 7
  • pg 377
    1. Officer O'Mearah draws the .357 and challenges Roland. The officer was holding an unloaded gun (We are told this twice pg 357 & 358)
• subchapter 9
  • pg 380
    1. The first line of this section says Mort drove to the Christopher Street station where the A-Train had cut Odetta Holmes legs off three years prior. Earlier (The Lady of Shadows, 1-Detta and Odetta, subchapter 3, pg 193) we had learned that Odetta got her legs cut off on August 19th, 1959. Adding three years makes this 1962 or 1963. There are several contradictions.
       • Roland initially enters Mort's mind as he is about to push Jake in front of the car, killing him -for the first time- (The Pusher, 1-Bitter Medicine, pg 315). In "The Waste Lands", (Book 1 Jake, II-Key and Rose, subchapter 1, pg 89). we learn that Jake was to die on May 31st, 1977. This results in a 15 year mismatch.
       • This error is repeated in "The Waste Lands" (Argument, pg 4), when Stephen King writes that Jack Mort died "...beneath the wheels of the same subway --that fabled A-train-- which took Odetta's legs fifteen or sixteen years before.".
    2. Roland -in Mort's body- encounters two officers near the subway station. One of the officers names is Norris Weaver, but at the end of this subchapter, his name changes to Norris Wheaton.

( Note: All page numbers are from the Plume paperback, unless otherwise noted. )

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