To lull her to sleep, he proceeds o gently perform a soft-shoe dance on the fine sand and tenderly caress and pat the floor during his sand dance.He prescribes a cure for the insomniac:Get plenty of sleep.That""s what the doctor told me.On the open-air rear observation deck (an impossibility!) of the plane, he takes a drink of "gin-ger ale.Other main characters, Catherine""s two guardians (who are both widowed and often speak ideally about their dead spouses) are introduced:Dr.High-intensity capacitors." Max threatened that he was a force of nature: "You do realize you locked me in a prison that runs on electricity?.To recall his own repressed past memories, Hannibal injected himself with sodium thiopental while listening to a phonograph record playing the Goldberg Variations in his apartment, and viewing six pencil sketches he had made of the Lithuanian soldiers who had cannibalized his sister.