[ SECRET POST #2449 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2449 ⌋

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Comments

[luxshine]

I completely disagree, sorry. He recognizes the madness in Cujo's eyes as the same as Frank's madness at the end, but it's not the same as recognizing Frank himself. I'm trying to find the exact passage for that, but Cujo wasn't possessed. It says so at the end. "He had been stuck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies." If it had been Frank, that last paragraph would've mentioned it.

[233c]

Look for the passage where Bannerman goes to the property. It's towards the end, if I recall. He specifically says, confused, "Frank?"

And then he gets mauled.

I haven't read the book in ages -- I'm not even sure I still have it -- but I remember that scene very clearly.

[edit] My key point though was that despite it not being outright stated, the implication is still there. Bearing in mind that this is Stephen King we're talking about, it's not an unreasonable theory, though you could take it or leave it. The end of the book could be read as being somewhat ambivalent about it too.

[luxshine]

Oh, I agree that it's a plausible reading. I disagreed about Bannerman recognizing Dodd in Cujo, outside the confused question that, as far as I remember was at a shadow before he actually saw Cujo (I am having troubles to find the scene in my copy right now).

The thing is, while a plausible reading, it does break a bit the whole subject of 'horrible coincidence' that the rest of the book has, and once Bannerman dies, Dodd is never mentioned again. Yes, there's an implication, and I'm sure that if King had been a little less intoxicated when he wrote the book, we would have had more to that -or a complete denial at some point- but it's a bit too much to put 'Cujo was possessed' as a hard fact when the only hard fact is that Cujo had rabies.

[233c]

Except I didn't say it was a hard fact. I said it was implied.