Built-in Reminder (Russian: «Встроенный напоминатель») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991.
As an example of a work of vibrationalism, he demonstrates a simulacrum of a human being, "a mannequin with a remote eliminator and a built-in death reminder.
At the end of the lecture Niksim Skolpovsky says: "The built-in reminder warned of impending death, but could the mannequin hear it ringing?
[5] During the lecture, the elderly women in attendance begin to gradually shrink and at the end become no more than specks of dust.
It is very reminiscent of his own statement: "Being forced by the nature of my occupations to meet a lot of heavy idiots from literary circles, I have developed the ability to participate in their conversations without really thinking about what they are talking about, but freely juggling with ridiculous words like 'realism', 'theurgy' or even 'theosophical coke'.