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I am currently reading the 7th book in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series with the main character being an Inner-World "Gunslinger" or cowboy. During part of an earlier book they have to keep a "doorway" between the worlds open for certain characters to go through and come back. But with the door open there are these "todash" (his made-up word for them) sounds that can send you crazy if you are close to the doorway. To counter this the "Gunslinger" puts two bullets/shell casings in his ears to counter the
"todash chimes".
What is even more interesting is that in various Occult traditions, especially Buddhist, the 5 senses are called "The Five Gates" or five doorways. With the ears being one of those "doorways", if you get my drift?
I guess you'd have to have read the books to understand what I mean (and may mean nothing to anyone else) but that sure is an interesting coincidence as far as I am concerned.
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