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| - John Farson (also known as The Good Man) was originally a harrier and stage-robber who began to gain a political following in the lands of either Garlan or Desoy while Roland Deschain was still a boy. His sigul was the eye of the Crimson King. He was a tall man and "broad at the brisket".
- Farson, with the covert and sometimes the direct aid of the Crimson King and his top helper Randall Flagg, made use of the generational resentment of those not in the ruling elite of Gilead, though actually bettering their conditions was always the farthest thing from his mind. He ruled through barabaric brutality, and, as if to confirm his dark mystic backing, even the most drastic setback was always undone and reversed. It seems likely he did not long survive the fulfillment of his revolutionary goals.
- John Farson (also known as The Good Man) was originally a harrier and stage-robber who began to gain a political following in the lands of either Garlan or Desoy while Roland was still a boy. His sigul was the eye of the Crimson King.
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| - John Farson (also known as The Good Man) was originally a harrier and stage-robber who began to gain a political following in the lands of either Garlan or Desoy while Roland was still a boy. His sigul was the eye of the Crimson King. Although Farson's name features large in 'Wizard and Glass' he does not actually appear to any of the characters in any of the seven 'Dark Tower' volumes and is only referred to by other characters. Probably due to the confusion of those times, some characters even identify him with Walter/Marten/Flagg. However, John Farson is a separate individual; George Latigo, one of Farson's lieutenants, is surprised to meet Walter when he was expecting Farson. Here, Latigo's POV provides the novels' only physical description of Farson; he was a tall man and "broad at the brisket."
- John Farson (also known as The Good Man) was originally a harrier and stage-robber who began to gain a political following in the lands of either Garlan or Desoy while Roland Deschain was still a boy. His sigul was the eye of the Crimson King. He was a tall man and "broad at the brisket". Farson promised his supporters a fair and democratic society as opposed to the Feudalist-style Affiliation. He even had a John F. Kennedy-like slogan, "Ask not what the Good Man can do for you, but what you can do for him." Due to his allegiance to the Crimson King and his methods of subversion, treason, and mass murder, it is highly unlikely that he ever entertained any notion of installing a society that was even remotely democratic or fair
- Farson, with the covert and sometimes the direct aid of the Crimson King and his top helper Randall Flagg, made use of the generational resentment of those not in the ruling elite of Gilead, though actually bettering their conditions was always the farthest thing from his mind. He ruled through barabaric brutality, and, as if to confirm his dark mystic backing, even the most drastic setback was always undone and reversed. It seems likely he did not long survive the fulfillment of his revolutionary goals. In an early version of the Dark Tower's first novel, The Gunslinger, Farson is the name of a town, not the man himself.
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