'"You fell but you did not die," he said. "You may think your God was kind. But I tell you, my own gods were saving you for me. Pray
to your God now that your heart should burst apart in your chest. Fall on your knees and pray for that, because I tell you that my death
will be much worse than any you can imagine."'
[Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon, Page 369, Signet; NAL Penguin Inc., New York, 1988].
There's little more to say than this: in this story (as far as I was able to discern), the name of "God" is not raised until now. It is out-of-character with the
story, which is purely fantasy with only mention of gods in the pantheist/Animistic sense. Why now? Perhaps a writer's conscious mind
has its greatest struggle in keeping the id out. Apparently, I am not alone, and there is a King-sized battle going on.
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