Stephen King's It by Stephen King

Author:Stephen King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: stephen king, it, pennywise, derry

at Cornell would suddenly find himself on stage with the band, a Fender guitar strapped over his shoulder, whopping out "Gloria" or "surfin" Bird" with gleeful drunken ferocity. What was it Springsteen said? No retreat, baby, no surrender... but it was easier to believe in the oldies on the record-player after a couple of drinks or some pretty good Panama Red.

But, Richie believed, it was the reversion that was the hallucination, not the present life. Maybe the child was the father of the man, but fathers & sons often shared very different interests & only a passing resemblance. They-

But you say grownups & now it sounds like nonsense; it sounds like so much bibble-babble. Why is that, Richie? Why?

Because Derry is as weird as ever. Why don't we just leave it at that? Because things weren't that simple, that was why.

As a kid he had been a goof-off, a sometimes vulgar, sometimes amusing comedian, because il was one way to get along without getting killed by kids like Henry Bowers or going absolutely loony-tunes with boredom & loneliness. He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed 10 or 20 times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple.

Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after awhile-you got it under control or you found outlets for it, guys like Kinky Briefcase or Buford Kissdrivel, for instance. Richie had discovered that in the months after he had wandered into the college radio station, pretty much on a whim, & had discovered everything he had ever wanted during his 1st week behind the microphone. He hadn't been very good at 1st; he had been too excited to be good. But he had understood his potential not to be just good at the job but great at it, & just that knowledge had been enough to put him over the moon on a cloud of euphoria. At the same time he had begun to understand the great principle that moved the universe, at least that part of the universe which had to do with careers & success: you found the crazy guy who was running around inside of you, fucking up your life. You chased him into a corner & grabbed him. But you didn't kill him. Oh no. Killing was too good for the likes of that little bastard. You put a harness over his head & then started plowing. The crazy guy worked like a demon once you had him in the traces. & he supplied you with a few chucks from time to tune. That was really all there was. & that was enough.

He had been funny, all right, a laugh a minute, but in the end he had outgrown the nightmares that were on the dark side of all those laughs.

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