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Erik van Rheenen<\/strong>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> have posted 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The<\/span> Stand<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 As is our tradition, here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 6. Christian Radio Made a Contribution As Well<\/strong><\/p>\n King revealed a third inspiration for The Stand <\/em>in Danse Macabre<\/em>: A single line he heard in a radio broadcast of a sermon when he was living in Colorado. The line \u201cOnce in every generation the plague will fall among them\u201d made such an impression on King that he wrote it down and pinned it over his typewriter. Later, when the author was struggling to write a fictionalized account of the Patty Hearst kidnapping (the unpublished The House on Value Street<\/em>), he saw the gloomy quote and found the inspiration to start a new project that became The Stand<\/em>.<\/p>\n 8. The Extreme Length Led to Logistical Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n The 1,200-page novel presented a serious problem \u2013 King\u2019s publisher, Doubleday, couldn\u2019t print a novel that long. Literally. In addition to whatever qualms the publisher might have had about trying to sell such a hefty book, its printing presses couldn\u2019t create it. As King explained<\/a> to Time <\/em>in 2009, \u201cDoubleday had a physically limiting factor in those days because they used a glue binding instead of a cloth binding, and the way it was explained to me was that they had so much of a thickness they could do before the glue just fell apart.\u201d<\/p>\n 10. The Cut Pages Weren\u2019t Lost<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, when your fans are as rabid as King\u2019s, it\u2019s hard for lost pages to stay lost. In 1990 King restored the text he had hacked away to create The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition<\/em>. King didn\u2019t just slip all the cut pages back into the original manuscript, though \u2013 he retyped each one. He told Time<\/a> he \u201chad the manuscript on one side of an IBM Selectric typewriter and I had the pages of a book that I had torn out of the binding on the other side.\u201d The restored edition had another quirk \u2013 King also updated the setting of the novel to the then-present day and included references to cultural touchstones like Freddy Krueger that had not existed in 1978.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Erik van Rheenen\u00a0and Mental_Floss have posted 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Stand.\u00a0 As is our tradition, here are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}