yusipka – "He saw the Toad crouching at the foot of the wall, shaking, dissolving, speeding up his shrill incantations, protecting his dimming face with his transparent arm, and Krug ran towards him, and just a fraction of an instant before another and better bullet hit him, he shouted again: You, you–and the wall vanished…" from Bend Sinister, Chapter 18, by Vladimir Nabokov