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“He rolled it between fingers that would all too soon be gone.” - The Drawing of the Three’s opening foreshadowed!

The Crimson King is mentioned in a sermon at Tull’s church.
The pastor may have arrived on a train - a possible reference to Blain.

Speaking Ring is mentioned when he’s asking directions in the city of Tull. Rolland is asking about what beyond the desert.
At the end of the desert is a green ocean with monsters, some say. -
Sheb, Susan, and reaping night when they burned her at a steak. That one roll and actually says when he sees Sheb. Eldred Jonas and the coffin hunters are all mention in one conversation. Love it.

Interestingly, the number 19 is presented as a very important number. What that will provide a key to the afterlife. The key to another world.
Such a nice foreshadow.

The number 19 is mentioned for the first time in a note the Man in Black left for the bartender.

The Man in Black says “once more with feeling, as they say in the world next door”. A great reference to The Drawing of the Three.

Sheemie and his mule (Wizard and Glass)
Mid-World (The Wastelands)
Billybumblers (Oy - The Wastelands)

More of the foreshadowing -
Friends, horns and hat lost in battle (Wizard and Glass)
A Taheen - a man with a raven’s head (Wolves of the Cala and The Dark Tower)

This being my ???th time reading the first book, I started noticing how many different ways Stephen King foreshadows a variety of future storylines. He does it by mentioning characters, events and locations. Either through conversations or flashes of memories, recollections.
So far …
The Mannies who are the Holy Men are mentioned as religious cultists who search for holes in space.