Picked to be one of 457 persons in a security force work detail, living in creature comforts on a small islet near American Samoa, with cameras watching and simulcasting each arrest of highway offenders Fex is conscripted into performing-and performing on a game show sound stage has its benefits. For one thing, there is his adversaries' weight loss: Fex has always wanted better proof that there are organs in his body, but even the skinniest of people seem all too adept at hiding them. The other castaways--best boys and Foley artists et. al.--starving to death on rice for just nigh forty days, won't stand a chance against his submarine-subsidized self-allotment of limitless foix-groix and nice crusty bread, champagne for his coffee and olive oil for his bug bites. Easy there fella; no tortured array of trans-hypochondrial seagulls will save your ass from the Pirates of Free Love Island when they come a-knockin', expecting their next full shipment of cochleas engorged by years of extra-careful listening!

IX.  He may sell Reality TV programs to the pregnant pauses that blanket the Nielsen nonsense when drunk, stupid, or buy the Latex Bubble Wand™ condom, patent pending eager, so that they could maybe escape the repetition that will never kill him--this undead Fex. The fraternity of this smiling Carnival, used this year as a product placement pyramid-scheme that he is wise enough to eschew, caused the body of youthful Modenisque to run over this over-locked, over-trussed damsel: well . . . let's just say that things were different in his day. A copy of a copy--is that like a double negative? If Fex looks at Modenisque under the nostalgic gaslight, her hair extending from the root of her underwear soiled rotten, the smell of raw eggs might just tongue the nine cartilage wrapped in one of 457 persons composing the security detail of the TV program: living on a small islet near American Samoa, with cameras watching and simulcasting each arrest beyond these systems. Simply put, less is less really, so let's just say less is more and forget the whole thing.