“Just because he is child and stupid, the nevezhda should not be spared,” Boris Sergetov declared. “Krugovaia otvetstvennost—collective responsibility. She popped him from her oven, fed him from her tit. He is our enemy no less than she. They are turds from the same bowel. Flush them both away.” To Frank Gatz, Ludlow said, “Your friend is so eloquent. Does he write poetry for the corporate newsletter? If not, you ought to let him have a page, see if maybe you have another Robert Frost among you.”
