All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I watched an interview of him some time ago, as a prelude to the network TV showing of The Tommyknockers. In the interview, King recounts his dad and uncle discussing baseball...and his young mind fixated on the Twi-Night Double Header which he felt for sure had taken up residence under his bed.
And now you know one of the spark plugs which ignited his penchant for writings of monsters.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."