Comment on so how do the kids defeat this clown, stephen?

• mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It’s another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library.

  -Stephen King

  The book even specified that the intent was for them to be together and unified as a group again, like they had to be for the fight. Just because they don’t spell out that their explicit intent was to escape him, doesn’t mean that isn’t the meaning.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Except pennywise eats adults. He just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)

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    • mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except It eats adults. It just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)

      Which is exactly why they’re able to remember the way out afterwards, since they took a path that makes it harder to influence them.

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