eddie tried to swerve , but running full-out as he had been , he might have done better to jump over the kid ( the kid 's name , in fact , was richard cowan , and he would grow up , marry , and father a son named frederick cowan , who would be drowned in a toilet and then be partially eaten by a thing that rose up from the toilet like black smoke and then took an unthinkable shape ) , or at least to try .