A sickness lies upon that treasure hoard.A sickness which drove your grandfather mad." Balin added: "You""re not yourself.The Thorin I know would not hesitate o go in there." Balin sensed that Thorin would sacrifice Bilbo as a burglar for his own purposes.Smaug continued to stalk Bilbo and revealed that he knew of Thorin Oakenshield""s quest to reclaim Lonely Mountain and acquire the Arkenstone - and then made a dire prediction about he approach of Sauron." Then, Madge entered o purchase cigarettes and was formally introduced to Betty.She knew of Marvin""s long friendship with Betty, but snidely remarked: "She used to be your sweetheart, didn""t she?" Envious of Betty, Madge invited Marvin to her own extravagant jazz band party (with an all-black jazz band from Memphis) on Saturday night at 8:30 pm, to openly display him as her "boyfriend" and expert dancer ("I want you to come.[Note: This was the first of two significant ""father-figure"" deaths in the film for Chance.Both life-changing events bookended the film to keep it balanced.However, Chance had no reaction or mourning period for this first death.] Without any emotion next to the corpse, he sat on the edge of the bed, reached for the room""s TV remote, and switched on another TV:a Sealy Posturepedic Advertisement: with he cheery "It""s a Sealy Posturepedic Morning" jingle, and the pitchman: "Feeling so good that it shows because Posturepedic is designed in cooperation with leading orthopedic surgeons for no morning backache from sleeping on a too-soft mattress.He introduced himself as "an old friend of Peter""s" - she admitted that their relationship was "complicated" and that they were currently broken-up.Kesey had derived most of the novel""s secondary characters from real-life psychiatric ward patients at a VA hospital (in Menlo Park, CA) where he had once worked in a night job in the late 50s.