[…] the depopulator, the thing or system that depopulates or depersons, accords with my own dream scene: foliage dissolving, solid state cartridges sliding, persons silently far away blown up into volumes of illuminated centimeters, my own family choking on space.

Now Boris Yeltsin Has His Own 'Mini-Me'.

TONO: A wet noodle. That's the explanation I gave to the desk clerk for having to leave in such a hurry. (He laughs.) A wet noodle. (He makes the gesture with a flaccid finger.) Oh, Jesus, and the guy understood.

[…] the level on which she can be pert, sly, and spankable, and fill out a small personality.