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Cuthbert Allgood

Cuthbert Allgood is recorded in 6 distinct storys.

Roland’s youthful companion and mouthpiece Cuthbert shares the remembered horn and death at Jericho Hill across these narratives.

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Stories and supporting passages

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

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Next came Cuthbert Allgood’s face, laughing as he went downhill to his death, still blowing that gods-damned horn . . . and then he saw Susan’s face, twisted, made ugly with …

Roland sees a memory/vision of Cuthbert laughing and blowing the horn as he goes to his death.

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

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Because neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood. As Roland entered the hollow at the center of the grove, a dark shape stepped out from behind the tree where it had been keeping.

The narrator reflects on Cuthbert’s jokes and underlying nature as Roland enters the grove.

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

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Roland of Gilead’s mouthpiece. And yet was that so bad? Hadn’t Cuthbert Allgood had the job long before him? Callahan stepped forward.

Eddie compares his role as Roland’s mouthpiece to Cuthbert’s.

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

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He was Cuthbert Allgood all over again, Cuthbert to the life. “What the hell’s this?” someone called in a cracked, excited voice. “Just what in the blue hell is this? ”

Roland compares Eddie directly to his old companion Cuthbert.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

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Roland had given it to Cuthbert Allgood at Jericho Hill, and when Cuthbert fell, Roland had paused just long enough to pick it up again, knocking the deathdust of that place from its …

Roland remembers giving Cuthbert the horn at Jericho Hill and recovering it when he fell.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

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Which Cuthbert Allgood certainly would have done. “It must be what the whores in the low town call a diddlestick. Does that help?” “Truly? And they . . . what?

The narrator imagines how Cuthbert would laugh at the joke.