LULLABY QUESTION (spoiler)
I know this should be in the Lullaby thread but it won't let me create a topic there because it's locked.
When Carl meets up with Nash in the bar towards the end of the book when he sees everyone lying dead everywhere; How come when Nash "kills" Carl by saying the culling song ,and Carl sees everything turn gray and he falls over, why doesn't Carl stay dead? Instead he kills Nash with the culling song in return. How/why does he still live??
That's pretty much they way I read it. As they both started the culling song on each other and Carl is starting to die but he gets his out first, killing dude before he can finish killing him.
Nash was reading it slowly and right before the final words came out of his mouth. Carl said it in his head really quickly, thus killing Nash and not being killed by the song.
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My guess is that Carl didn't die, but he came awfully close to it. Nash was an amatuer when it came to using the culling song. He didn't even have the song memorized so he had to read it from a card. Whereas Carl used it almost subconsciously.
I like to think that Carl toyed with the idea of just letting Nash kill him, and then at the last second, let him have it.
No one has the right to teach us stuff we don't want to learn. That's what our Bill of Constitution's all about.