The other Miss Spink is ’s approximation of the real . Miss Spink and have both been transformed, apparently, into beautiful young women who perform an elaborate, never-ending theater piece for a rapt audience of Highland terriers. soon realizes, however, that the other Miss Spink and are not what they seem—instead, they’re grotesque, fleshy creatures who live together in an egg sac attached to the back wall of their “theater.”