The rest of his body continues to slide along the tracks and crashes into the station in Topeka. Eddie is the one who finally stumps Blaine with the jokes that Roland had previously declared "unworthy".īlaine's mechanical brain is fried from the effort involved of him answering the jokes. He answers all of Roland's Fair Day riddles and all of the riddles from Jake's book, Riddle-De-Dum. Blaine answers every riddle posed to him without pause. Wizard and Glass picks up where The Waste Lands left off, the riddling contest between Blaine and Roland's ka-tet. Blaine planned to kill them anyway in his suicide, but Roland was able to convince Blaine to let them live if they beat Blaine in a riddling contest.īlaine's Train Route In Wizard and Glass
Susannah, using Detta's memories, was able to solve it just before the gas was released. The ka-tet was forced to solve a riddle before they were allowed to board Blaine.
When Roland and Jake reunited with them, Blaine set a sequence in motion to release nerve gas on Lud. Susannah and Eddie discover Blaine in the Cradle of Lud. Role in the Dark Tower Series In The Waste Lands īlaine was first mentioned in Jake's final essay, My Understanding of Truth, where Jake wrote that "Blaine is a pain and that is the truth." Blaine was also foreshadowed by the book, Charlie the Choo-Choo, where Charlie was a seemingly friendly train but had a smile that "couldn't be trusted." Little Blaine was afraid of Big Blaine, and wanted to help stop him, but all he could really do is tell the ka-tet not to enrage him. Little Blaine appeared to be more sane than "Big Blaine" and tried to help Roland, but was not able to help very much. He enjoyed doing John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Stewart impressions.īlaine assisted in his sibling train Patricia's suicide by removing some of her programming.īlaine also had a rogue part of his brain that was dubbed "Little Blaine". Even though he existed in Mid-World, he knew of other worlds, including New York City.
He had a top speed of over 900 miles per hour and produced a sonic boom. He was described as being colored pink and was over "two wheels long". His original purpose was to ferry passengers away from Lud and had stops in Candleton, Rilea, The Falls of the Hounds, Dasherville, and Topeka. 3 Blaine the Mono's Riddling Competitionīlaine's brain was housed in a series of dipolar computers beneath the city of Lud.
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