The characters / Recurring character
Blaine the Mono
Blaine the Mono is recorded in 6 distinct storys.
The sentient monorail associated with Lud, Patricia, the riddle challenge and Eddie’s victory recurs by name and shared journey history. Little Blaine is the timid named voice/persona of the same Blaine system; the reviewed text establishes no independently embodied entity. Preserve the voice distinction without counting another character.
Also recorded as Little Blaine.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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“Ay,” Aunt Talitha said. Her face was lost and dreaming. “Then it’d come—Blaine the Mono, twinkling in the sun, with a nose like one of the bullets in your revolver, gunslinger. Maybe two wheels long.
Talitha remembers the train coming through like a shining bullet.
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There was no answer. Eddie let the seconds spin out. Each one seemed long enough to read a whole novel in. He was reaching for the button again when the faint pink glow reappeared. “I’m Little Blaine,” the child’s voice whispered. “The one he doesn’t see. The one he forgot.
Blaine’s system speaks in its timid Little Blaine voice/persona, distinct from its dominant Big Blaine voice; this is retained under the canonical Blaine identity.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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His three companions were holding theirs. All around them, suffocating, was Blaine the Mono’s thunderstruck silence.
Blaine is directly addressed by Roland and reacts with stunned silence.
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IF THE REST OF YOUR RIDDLES ARE NO BETTER, I WILL BE EXTREMELY SORRY I SAVED YOUR LIVES FOR EVEN A SHORT WHILE.” The route-map flashed, not red this time but pale pink. “Don’t get him mad,” the voice of Little Blaine begged.
Blaine’s system speaks in its timid Little Blaine voice/persona, distinct from its dominant Big Blaine voice; this is retained under the canonical Blaine identity.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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… had said on several occasions, but he-or it-turned out to be quite a bit more than just a pain; Blaine the Mono had been utterly mad. Eddie killed it with illogic (“Somethin you’re just naturally good at, sugar,” Susannah told him), and they had detrained in a …
The narrator recalls Eddie destroying the mad monorail through illogic.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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It was all very well to remind herself Blaine the Mono was dead and this voice was coming from some nasty practical joker in her own subconscious, but that didn’t stop the fear.
Susannah recognizes a frightening mental voice as evoking the dead Blaine.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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He dialed John Cullum’s number on the old-fashioned rotary phone, and when a robot voice—Blaine the Mono’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, mayhap—asked him to deposit ninety cents, Eddie dropped in a buck.
Eddie compares a recorded telephone voice to the already encountered sentient train.
The Wind Through the Keyhole
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Bix grunted when they told him how they’d left the doomed city. “Blaine the Mono, y’say. I remember. Crack train. There was another ’un, too, although I can’t remember the name—” “Patricia,” Susannah said. “Aye, that was it.
Bix recalls Blaine and Susannah supplies Patricia’s name.