A near neighbor of Henry Miller in Big Sur, CA, Rink is a jack-of-all trades whose novel has been rejected by 25 publishers, although he rewrites it many times to fit publishers' specific whims, a practice that Miller considers foolish and hopeless. Miller admires Rink's ability to narrate daily installments about a character named Inch Connecticut for over a year. It inspires Miller to tel his own children a nightly story about a little girl named Chama, based on the beautiful daughter of Merle Armitage.