

Ralph began to see these things by the middle of May, and as June set in, he began to understand that the pitchmen along the medical midway had only quack remedies to sell, and the cheery quickstep of the calliope could no longer quite hide the fact that the tune spilling out of the loudspeakers was "The Funeral March." It was a carnival, all right the carnival of lost souls. Those four months were like being dragged drunk through some malign carnival where the people on the rides were really screaming, the people lost in the mirror maze were really lost, and the denizens of Freak Alley looked at you with false smiles on their lips and terror in their eyes. The months between March and June were a jangling, screaming time inside his head-a time of conferences with doctors, of evening runs to the hospital with Carolyn, of trips to other hospitals in other states for special tests (Ralph spent much of his travel time an these trips thanking God for Carolyn's Blue Cross/Major Medical cocoverage), of personal research in the Derry Public Library, at first Imaking for answers the specialists might have overlooked, later on just looking for hope and grasping at straws. Litchfield-came right out and told Ralph Roberts that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph understood without needing to be told. Juan Mentalvo "On Beauty" Ne one-least of all Dr. PS3561.483156 1994 813'.54-dc2O 94 784 Insomnia Prologue Winding the Deathwatch (1) Old age is an island, surrounded by death. Library of Congress Catalog and publishing data: King, Stephen Insomnia / Stephen King. All rights Wanted Man Music controlled and administered by EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. 9 1993 UEsNidl lackwood Music, Inc and Wanted Man Music. Sloan and Steve Publishing, a Division of MCA Inc. Copyright Pursuit the auter and Viking Penguin, a division ,nt by Dejecta Clark, C rnel Conrad Music, a division of Arc Music 'The Lord of the Rigs by J. International copyright "The Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns. The following copyrighted works: "White Rabbit," lyrics and-music by Grace Slick. Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, Or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright (c) Stephen King, 1994 illustrations copyright David Johnson, 1994 NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Gerald's Game The Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Tommy-knockers Screenplays Night Shift Creepshow Different Seasons Cat's Eye Skeleton Crew Silver Bullet Past Midnight Maximum Overdrive Nightmares Pet Cemetery Dreamscapes Golden Years Nonfiction Sleepwalker Danse Macabre The Stand published in 1994 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Also by Stephen King Novels Carrie Christine The Dark Tower II Salem's Lot Pet Cemetery The Drawing of The Shining Cycle of the Werewolf The Stand The Talisman The Dark Tower III The Dead Zone (with Peter Straub) The Waste Lands Firestarter The Dark Half Cujo Eyes Of the Dragon Needful Things Misery BBut, after all, Ralph lives in Derry and as King devotees well know, strange things have a way of happening in Derry. As his insomnia progresses, strange things begin to happen to him. Insomnia by Stephen King Synopsis: Insomnia.zip Insomnia by Stephen King Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping lately. Get Smart! at : *More than 150,000 articles for DUMMIES *Learn how almost everything works *Get Smart! Get Pedia!
