Through his actions both in his world, and in Eddie, Susannah, and Jack Mort's world, Roland saves Eddie and Susannah.

After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes.

The Guardians are revealed in several scenes: the first is revealed when Roland is explaining to Eddie and Susannah Dean what Shardik was and his understanding of the Beams ; another is revealed when Eddie and Susannah approach the Cradle of Lud ; and the last, Bird and Hare, are revealed in the poem Roland and his lover, Susan Delgado, recite to each other occasionally: " Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish ...." The only pairs identified are by Susannah and Eddie while at the Cradle of Lud.

In The Waste Lands, Susannah compares Roland first to Marshal Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke, but later comes to believe he is more like John F. Kennedy.

This book continues the story of Roland Deschain, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, and Oy as they make their way toward the Dark Tower.

To add to that, Roland and Jake have noticed bizarre changes in Susannah's behavior, which are linked to the event recounted in The Waste Lands when Susannah couples with the demon in the stone circle.

Roland informs Eddie that Susannah has been impregnated by the demon, and though he fears for her safety he remains surprisingly calm.

Technically speaking, however, this child is the biological descendant of Susannah Dean and the gunslinger, Roland.

While Susannah, Jake, and Callahan are in New York, Roland and Eddie Dean are sent by the magic doorway to Maine in 1977, with the goal of securing the ownership of a vacant lot in New York from its current owner, a man named Calvin Tower ( who first appears in The Waste Lands as the proprietor of The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind, where he sells Jake a copy of Charlie the Choo-Choo, a book that has turned out to be important to the ka-tet's quest ).

In the other world, in Fedic, Mia, her body now physically separated from Susannah Dean, gives birth to Mordred Deschain, the biological son of Roland Deschain and Susannah.

Roland, heartbroken with the loss of the person he considers his true son, buries Jake and returns to Susannah in Fedic with Oy, where they are first chased relentlessly through the depths of Castle Discordia by an otherworldly monster, then depart and travel for weeks across freezing badlands toward the Tower.

Dandelo feeds off the emotions of his victims, and starts to feed off of Roland and Susannah by telling them jokes.

Roland and Susannah are alerted to the danger by Stephen King, who drops clues directly into the book, enabling them to defeat the vampire.

As their travels bring them nearer to the Dark Tower, Susannah comes to the conclusion that Roland needs to complete his journey without her.

He does so and once it appears, Susannah says goodbye to Roland and crosses over to another world.

In the seventh novel, Susannah Dean, who ends up understanding ka maybe more than Roland himself, comes to the understanding that in simple terms, " ka-tet " means family.

Although Jake is only a teenager, Susannah is older than Eddie, meaning Roland sees in Eddie some leadership traits that are absent in Susannah.

Since Eddie was headed deeper into addiction ( at the hands of his brother Henry ) or prison ( at the hands of the government ), or worse ( at the hands of his drug lord ), he decides to throw his lot in with Roland, although with deep misgivings that he occasionally gives vent to in the form of angry outbursts.

Roland and Eddie are forced to contend with both of these personalities when Odetta's body is forcibly abducted into their world.

Roland burns Walter's jawbone and the key to his and Jake's dilemma is revealed — but to Eddie Dean, not Roland.

( Eddie Dean, an ex-heroin addict and member of Roland's ka-tet, calls Roland a " Tower junkie.

When he first ' draws ' Eddie from the human world, Roland dislikes him for being a drug addict and constantly complaining about his plight.

After Eddie beats his addiction, however, he starts to care for him more and more and eventually Roland regards him as something between a son and a brother.

Roland, already scarred by the deaths of all his childhood friends — who all died helping him to get closer to the tower — he is shown to be emotionally devastated by Eddie's and especially Jake's death, weeping openly ( something Eddie mentioned before did not happen often, if at all ).

Eddie Dean sees Stephen King as a young man and recognizes that he and Roland share many of the same physical features, saying that Roland could be King's father.

Roland and Eddie escape this onslaught with the help of a crafty local man, John Cullum, who they deem to be a savior put in their path through the machinations of ka.

In the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

Over the years, Lee's keyboards have featured synthesizers from Oberheim ( Eight-voice, OB-1, OB-X, OB-Xa ), PPG ( Wave 2. 2 and 2. 3 ), Roland ( Jupiter 8, D-50, XV-5080, and a Fantom X7 starting on the Snakes & Arrows Tour ), Moog ( Minimoog, Taurus bass pedals, Moog Little Phatty ), and Yamaha ( DX7, Yamaha KX76 ).

Newer advances in synthesizer and sampler technology have allowed Lee to store familiar sounds from his old synthesizers alongside new ones in combination synthesizer / samplers, such as the Roland XV-5080.

Although critics have claimed that the photograph is of a dog swimming towards the camera ( possibly carrying a stick ), researcher Roland Watson rejects this interpretation and suggests there is an eel-like head on the right side of the image.

* 1980 – Roland TR-808: One of the most popular programmable analog drum machines ; its distinctive analog sounds, such as its cowbell sound and its kick drum, have become pop-music clichés, heard on countless recordings.

Certainly, other Bishops were depicted bearing the arms of a knight without comment, such as Archbishop Turpin who bears both a spear and a sword named " Almace " in The Song of Roland or Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who also appears to have fought as a knight during the First Crusade, an expedition that Odo also joined.

Later semiotic approaches to literature have often been less systematic ( or, in some special cases such as Roland Barthes's S / Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to render the possibility of a complete literary semiotics doubtful ).

Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, the most famous case being the decision to award the prize in 1919 to Marcel Proust ; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War.

Research by Rhonda Roland Shearer indicates that Duchamp may have fabricated his found objects.

He may also have sponsored an early version of The Song of Roland.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 90 ), Dannie Abse ( 1923-), Raymond Garlick ( 1926-), Peter Finch ( 1947-) and Paul Groves ( 1947-) have a significant place.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 1990 ), Dannie Abse ( born 1923 ), Raymond Garlick ( born 1926 ), Peter Finch ( born 1947 ), and perhaps also Paul Groves ( born 1947 ) have a significant place.

Recent scholars, however, such as Roland Hissette, have challenged this interpretation.

Popular synthesizers such as the Minimoog and Yamaha DX-7, Korg M1, Prophet V, Oberheim OB-X, Roland Jupiter 8, ARP 2600 and dozens of other classics have been recreated in software.

Other stories have him as the rival and slayer of Roland at Roncesvaux.

Research leader Roland Lauster said within five years millions of hair-loss sufferers could grow new hair from their own stem cells and have it implanted into their bald spots.

Scholarly consensus has long accepted that the Song of Roland differed in its presentation depending on oral or textual transmission ; namely, although a number of different versions of the song containing varying material and episodes would have been performed orally, the transmission to manuscript resulted in greater cohesiveness across versions.

As cultural scientist Roland Benedikter poses in his book on Sustainable Democratization of Iraq and in a series of essays, one main cause of the ongoing problems of pacification seems to consist in the fact that the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability, including questions of ethnicity, religion and minority issues, have not been included appropriately in the overall democratization strategies so far.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich's Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

In the Knight of Gwynne, a story of the Union ( 1847 ), Con Cregan ( 1840 ), Roland Cashel ( 1850 ) and Maurice Tiernay ( 1852 ) we still have traces of his old manner ; but he was beginning to lose his original joy in composition.

* Durandal, the sword of Roland, according to Karlamagnus Saga: though in Orlando Innamorato Durandal is said to have been originally the sword of Hector of Troy.