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Mr. Dark / The Illustrated Man / Jed
Mr. Dark’s partner and one of the proprietors of Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show. Mr. Cooger is first introduced as a forty-year-old man, but after riding the carnival’s carousel backward, he is transformed into a twelve-year-old boy. Mr. Cooger poses as Robert, Miss Foley’s nephew from Wisconsin, but she senses from the beginning that he is an imposter and “doesn’t belong,” though she can’t quite articulate why. When Robert attempts to ride the carousel to change back into Mr. Cooger, Will and Jim accidentally knock the carousel’s control box and send the ride forward uncontrollably, and Mr. Cooger is transformed into a decrepit old man well over a hundred years old. As an old man, Mr. Cooger becomes Mr. Electrico, one of the attractions in Mr. Dark’s freakshow, who is sparked back to life with one hundred thousand volts via an Electric Chair. Mr. Electrico turns to dust and blows away after the freaks drop him en route to the carousel.
Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico Quotes in Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Something Wicked This Way Comes quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico or refer to Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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Will grabbed Jim’s shirt front, felt his heart bang under the chest bones. “Jim—”
“Let go.” Jim was terribly quiet. “If he knows you’re here, he won’t come out. Willy, if you don’t let go, I’ll remember when—”
“When what!”
“When I’m older, darn it, older!”
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Chapter 23
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Will saw the evil boy, a year older still, glide around into the night. Five or six more times around and he’d be bigger than the two of them!
“Jim, he’ll kill us!”
“Not me, no!”
Will felt a sting of electricity. He yelled, pulled back, hit the switch handle. The control box spat. Lightning jumped to the sky, Jim and Will, flung by the blast, lay watching the merry-go-round run wild.
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Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico Quotes in Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Something Wicked This Way Comes quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico or refer to Mr. Cooger / Robert / Mr. Electrico. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
Quotes
Will grabbed Jim’s shirt front, felt his heart bang under the chest bones. “Jim—”
“Let go.” Jim was terribly quiet. “If he knows you’re here, he won’t come out. Willy, if you don’t let go, I’ll remember when—”
“When what!”
“When I’m older, darn it, older!”
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Chapter 23
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Will saw the evil boy, a year older still, glide around into the night. Five or six more times around and he’d be bigger than the two of them!
“Jim, he’ll kill us!”
“Not me, no!”
Will felt a sting of electricity. He yelled, pulled back, hit the switch handle. The control box spat. Lightning jumped to the sky, Jim and Will, flung by the blast, lay watching the merry-go-round run wild.
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