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Houses also host visitors from their Eli affiliates. The Botts exchange "football visits" with Master Robin Wink of Dunster's sister College, Berkeley College...
Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred times before, watching his fish move downstream. He pauses for a moment, then, feeling the pressure on the line, moves downstream. "Look at the son of a gun go," he says to no one in particular, and pulls his hat closer to his skull...
...here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this world-our world-to participate wholeheartedly in its redemption...
...bonds. Says Bettie, who now works as a cook at the local high school: "You wouldn't believe how frugally we have lived and how frugally we will have to live. I haven't been sleeping. Not a wink...
Kline's conception of the role is that of an oldtime silent-movie villain who relishes his villainy and wants everyone else to relish it. Thus his performance takes the form of a prolonged aside to the audience, missing only the knowing wink. What Kline lacks in gravity, he makes up in charm. His rash, stunning proposal to share the bed of Lady Anne (Madeleine Potter), made over the coffin of her father-in-law, whom Richard has slain after murdering her husband, meets with implausible success partly because Kline makes seduction irresistible...