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Titolo: Mike Hanlon Drinks a Water

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MIKE HANLON DRINKS A WATER
Michael Hanlon woke, gasping. He grabbed for his bedside clock, bringing
it close to his eyes so he could read it. The water glass he had put
there earlier shattered as it hit the bare floor, but Mike paid it no
mind. 
The clock said 3.17 a.m., but to Mike it felt much later. Much much
later. Too late, in fact. 
The year was 2012. Mike Hanlon was the last survivor of two horrible
summers, one having taken place 54 years ago, the other having taken
place 27 years ago. When he found that he'd forgotten everything from
those two years he had been relieved. Maybe, he'd thought, that means
it's really over. Maybe they really did kill IT. Maybe there's no need
for a watchman, that I can extinguish the lamp in the lighthouse for
good. But now, at 3.17 in the morning, such thoughts came back to haunt
him. 
As soon as he'd awakened he'd known the fate of the others. Richie
Tozier, dead of a drive-by shooting on the Los Angeles freeway, in 1998.
Ben and Beverly Hanscom, killed in 2011 when the wiring in Ben's
honeymoon house crossed itself. (Ben had subcontracted it out, for the
first, and it turned out, the only time. He'd wanted to spend extra time
on the pool out back.) The house went up in flames not unlike the
Colorado hotel he'd rebuilt 20 years previously. And Stuttering Bill?
That was perhaps the unkindest cut of all. While returning to England to
salvage whatever was left of his screenplay, that horrible weekend in
May behind him, his fully recovered wife by his side, the Concorde jet
they were flying took a nose dive into the English Channel while
approaching Heathrow Airport. 26 bodies were never recovered, among them
Bill and Audra Denbrough. Stan and Eddie, were, of course, still dead. 
All this meant, to Mike, onetime librarian and now simply an old
harmless man, that something that had once been thought dead was really
not. 
Mike turned on the news. CNN still had constant news coverage, but he
didn't like any of the newscasters on any of CNN's four channels. The
networks were on 24 hour broadcasting, but among the nine of them, none
had a news program between 2 and 5 in the morning exept RBS and all they
had was music news. MTV's so-called music news had degenerated into a
simple list of which rap star was in prison for murder or possession. 
Mike finally settled on CNN3. Arnold Schwimmer was a terrible
broadcaster, but at least he was human. Mike muted the volume so he
wouldn't have to listen to Schwimmer's nasal foghorning voice and waited
for his TV's picture to settle. 
Every image on the TV evoked a sense of terror. Mike could see glimpses
of Pennywise everywhere he looked. There he was, capering behind Willard
Scott as the former weatherman congratulated some old crock for reaching
age 100. Willard Scott must be up for one of his own greetings soon,
thought Mike. And didn't he use to be a clown? Yeah, he was the original
Ronald McDonald! 
The next story was no better. It was a retrospective about Howdy Doody,
and dancing all about was Clarabelle; only Mike knew it wasn't really
Clarabelle, but Pennywise. 
Mike changed channels. Every screen showed Pennywise in some form or
fashion. He flipped through all 99 channels provided by his basic cable
service; he saw Pennywise on each one of them. He gave up searching when
he returned to CNN3. 
I can't take this! he thought wildly. I can't go through that again! He
reached for the shattered remains of his water glass; the bottom had a
thick, sharp edge to it that would do nicely. On the screen now were
pictures from Russia; Pennywise capering around a crowd of children who
seemed to shrink away from him; Pennywise haunting for two friends,
Penniwise with a deadly grip on a hapless victim whose last breath was
coming up. 
Mike drew the edge of the glass across his throat from ear to ear. As he
started to lose consciousness, his hand fell on the remote control's
mute button, activating the volume. 
"This has been Arnold Schwimmer with the April Fool's Annual Clown
Report. We hope you've enjoyed this "clownish" behavior, and thank you
for choosing CNN3".
THE END
Suomi
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Non è assolutamente King, anche perchè, senza offesa per l'autore, è
fondamentalmente scritto maluccio. Inoltre se davvero fosse un ultimo
capitolo del libro non avrebbe senso ripetere cose che i lettori già sanno.
E cmq mi sembra anche piuttosto banale. Sicuramente fan fiction, di basso
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Se ne può fregare qualcosa a qualcuno... Concordo.
Sennò... Concordo uguale :P
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 livello.
Subscribe al 100%!!! come ho detto anche il mail a Suo', a me ha fatto
proprio schifo. Non voglio credere che sia King, mi deluderebbe molto.
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Concordo con tutti gli altri: è scritto maluccio ed è banale, oltre
che scontato. Ma posso sapere da dove è uscito? :)
Brend

proprio schifo. Non voglio credere che sia King, mi deluderebbe molto.
A me sembra di capire che sia un pesce d'aprile, copiato e incollato qui con
qualche giorno di ritardo :P Non st scritto anche in una delle ultime frasi?
Ciao
Marco
n.p. Nightwish - Sacrament of Wilderness

 che scontato. Ma posso sapere da dove è uscito? :)
Dalle fogne, naturalmente :PP
Patrizio

 Sicuramente fan fiction, di basso livello.
...non ci si scappa.
Suomi
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 Ma posso sapere da dove è uscito? :)
Scambi on-line di "inediti" di King.
Ma non preoccuparti: in cambio ho dato "Authopsy Room 4", che è in
"Everything's Eventual" ^_^
Suomi
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 qualche giorno di ritardo :P Non st scritto anche in una delle ultime frasi?
Ce l'ho da Dicembre, fai un po' te.
Suomi
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CUTTO TUTTO L'ULTIMO(PRESUNTO) ULTIMO CAPITOLO DI IT.
Senza offesa per nessuno, concordo con la maggioranza: è proprio una
chiavica. Non è di King, non sa di King, nemmeno gli assomiglia un pochetto.
E dire che mi piacerebbe tantissimo se Steve mettesse giù un "It 2: la
vendetta" e pure un "It 3: il ritorno", tenendo presente che non amo i
sequel, per niente.
Bruno.

Ce l'ho da Dicembre, fai un po' te.
Allora e` un capitone d'aprile :P
p.s. ma la traduzione italiana e` tua o di Marco Luolm?
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 p.s. ma la traduzione italiana e` tua o di Marco Luolm?
Mia. Ma fatta di corsa.
Suomi
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