Marathe & Steeply: Tine — architect of O.N.A.N. and Reconfiguration
Rodney Tine, Sr., Chief of Unspecified Services, acknowledged architect of O.N.A.N. and continental Reconfiguration, who held the ear of the White House of U.S.A., and whose stenographer had long doubled as the stenographer-cum-jeune-fille-de-Vendredi of M. DuPlessis, former asst. coordinator of the pan-Canadian Resistance
Context
The single densest political-apparatus datum in the early book: one man, Tine, is "acknowledged architect of O.N.A.N. and continental Reconfiguration" and holds "the ear of the White House" — the machine's founding and its map-redrawing traced to a named intelligence chief, not a legislature — and his loyalty runs through a shared mistress who also served the Canadian Resistance's coordinator. The state's founding act and the insurgency's counter-intelligence are shown coupled at the top through adulterated intimacy, the whole U.S.-Canada conflict resting on Tine's compromised heart.