[wolfboyspike]

Well now I have to re read Legion!

Good stuff though! Thanks!

The book really made me hate the cheesy fire and brimstone special effects scene that Hollywood tacked onto the end of the movie.

[Blizzi]

Oh, I keep meaning to say (before someone beats me to it) the cell number. 11. Roman numerals=2. I though I saw it in the book, but I went back to check and, yesterday, found that it was in the movie.

[Sofia]

“Regan. That angel. Many a morning when Chris was working, Regan would quietly slip out of bed, come down to the kitchen and place a flower, then grope her way crusty-eyed back to her sleep. Chris shook her head; rueful; recalling: she had almost named her Goneril. Sure. Right on. Get ready for the worst. Chris chuckled at the memory.”

The names Goneril and Regan come from King Lear, by Shakespeare. Goneril was the bad daughter, wasn’t she? And Regan the good one? 🙂

I’ve read Bill Johnson’s review on the novel and his perspective of this excerpt is that “Chris’s house will quickly be boiling over as grandly as the action in King Lear. And that it was also another example of Blatty setting up a character to have a thought or perform an action that allows the story’s audience to experience the role of the insider, the one who knows how Chris’s words will come back to, literally, haunt her. Especially having Chris think of Regan as an ‘angel.'”

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