Mr. Kasine

(Spelling unconfirmed.) The night manager of the McAllistor Building, named by Thomas Manuel (Session 4) as the man who lets him use the basement studio for his painting. Not yet met.

Session 5: Roger Carlins places the night manager's office on the sixth floor — i.e. up in the night floors. Kasine controls the basement and keeps an office on a floor that doesn't physically exist. He spans both ends of the building's impossible vertical.

Session 6: inside the night floors, Mark Roark tells the crew the night manager can get them upstairs to the sixth floor — and makes anti-semitic remarks about him. Kasine is named as the gatekeeper of the vertical, and characterized (by a hostile source) as Jewish. Possibly the keyholder the crew saw lock a door they couldn't open (The Night Floors).

Open Questions

• A "night manager" in a building with night floors — coincidence, or function?
• He controls access to the basement. What else is down there besides Manuel's studio?
• Any relation to the night-floors figures Mr. Ostanovic or Mr. Wild?