Paduk is the dictator of an unnamed Eastern European country. He leads the Ekwilist Party, the Party of the Average Man. Paduk’s father, an inventor, was the creator of the padograph.
Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister (1947).
A mechanical device that reproduces personality: Nabokov was eerily prescient here.
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