Orin's cruelties: the blanket-smothering, the marble-table tooth

texture · Weston childhood; recalled disputed

• When: Weston childhood.
• What: Among Orin's childhood cruelties: Orin apparently trapped Mario under blankets in childhood (never stated outright; it surfaces only as Orin, facing the wheelchaired A.F.R. "survey"-man, tries to remember "how long under blankets" someone could last, 119); and on the corner of a green-shot black-marble table Mario "knocked out a tooth after what Orin swore up and down was an accidental shove," while a set of delft figurines "dwindled as one figurine after another got knocked off by Mario, stumbling or shoved."