Last sighting: the sink nobody else will go near

texture · 20 Nov YDAU (pre-fête)

• When: 20 Nov YDAU, in the locker room before the exhibition against the Québec Jr. squad. Latest chronological point for Kornspan in the book.
• What: In the ritual pre-competition locker-room panorama — Wayne hooded in his towel, Troeltsch broadcasting his own match in advance, Kahn spinning a tennis ball on a finger nearby, Arslanian blindfolded in a corner — Kornspan's clause is one sentence with its own social force-field: "At the sink, Eliot Kornspan was blowing out his sinuses with hot water; no one else was anywhere near the sink." Gross, bodily, and alone: the book's farewell to him is his whole characterization in miniature.