Well I have no idea if he is a 'fan', but I always expect luminaries of his kind to be incredibly widely experienced in their field (and like fields), and surely very knowledgable of like literary figures.
I'm gonna go right ahead and say that that's an homage to the BfG bit. Perhaps he cringed 3 years later to see that Jim had re-used the piece and elevated it from curio to staple of millions of homes' record collections, and it wasn't such a clever thing to have done in a story anymore? :-)
> In The Langoliers, a novella by Stephen King, there is a
> scene where a character bashes another character over the
> head with a violin. He is doing this to subdue a bad guy.
> It is on page 108 of the non-Secret Window tie-in,
> paperback edition of Four Past Midnight.
>
> Does anybody think this has any connection to Jim's "Love
> and Death and an American Guitar"/"Wasted Youth"?
>
> No?
>
> Ha, gotcha. I forgot to mention the most important detail,
> this little piece of prose: "There was a solid thud which
> ran all the ran up his arms, and the indignant voice of
> his father suddenly spoke up in his mind: What's the
> matter with you, Albert? That's no way to treat an
> expensive musical instrument!"
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on this? I haven't ever bumped
> into Stephen King referencing Jim before, and the book
> came out in 1990, (obviously) too early for it to be a Bat
> II reference, but plenty of time for a BfG. But what are
> the odds for that?
>
> Anybody want to weigh in? Anyone know if Stephen King is a
> fan? I've never heard that he is, and I don't think he's
> ever excerpted Steinman's work, but perhaps...
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