With that, I am officially done with the text of Wizard and Glass. But I have a while to go before I jump into the next book. Here's the plan for the next few months:

- Listen to a month's worth of podcasts about this novel from The Loser's Club, The Kingcast, etc.

- Circle back to newly released episodes from all the books I've already completed (another month's worth)

- Start on the graphic novels that retell Wizard and Glass and fill in other backstory items

The final words of the Afterword, written before King's near-death experience with the van that hit him.
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I am coming to understand that Roland’s world (or worlds) actually contains all the others of my making; there is a place in Mid-World for Randall Flagg, Ralph Roberts, the wandering boys from The Eyes of the Dragon, even Father Callahan, the damned priest from ’Salem’s Lot, who rode out of New England on a Greyhound Bus and wound up dwelling on the border of a terrible Mid-World land called Thunderclap.
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That's quite a revelation at this stage!

Fortunately, there is an Afterword - something I look forward to in every King book!

“We are ka-tet,” Eddie said. It crossed his mind to wonder at how much he’d changed; how he had become a stranger, even to himself. “We are one from many.”

“Ka-tet,” Susannah said. “We are one from many.”

“One from many,” Jake said. “Come on, let’s go.”

Bird and bear and hare and fish, Eddie thought.

With Oy in the lead, they once more set out for the Dark Tower, walking along the Path of the Beam.
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And with that, I have finished reading Wizard and Glass!

“Who’s the Crimson King?” Susannah asked abruptly.
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I suppose this album hadn't been released yet in Susannah's time.

“But although no one had come to investigate the gunshots, someone had come for another reason. While I lay fainted away by my mother’s corpse, that someone came in and took the wizard’s glass away.”

“Rhea?” Eddie asked.

“I doubt she was so close in her body . . . but she had a way of making friends, that one. Aye, a way of making friends. I saw her again, you know.”
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Now THIS is something I definitely would like to hear more about!

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The Tale of the Bloody Belt. I look forward to hearing about that. Any chance that King forgot this little nugget and never brings it up again?