the V.R.5 wallow, continued: producing urine like a mullah's babe
We’re living like Shi’ite Moslems for the thirty days you miraculously blarneyed the guy into giving us. [...] We’re going to produce urine like a mullah’s babe, we agreed.
Context
The purge-pact restated as monkish discipline. Twenty days into the thirty, Hal holds Pemulis to it: "We're living like Shi'ite Moslems for the thirty days" so as to "produce urine like a mullah's babe" — total bodily abstinence in service of a clean sample. The athletic body under testing has to be made ritually pure, its fluids returned to an infant's innocence on schedule. It's asceticism with a lab-deadline: the flesh disciplined not toward transcendence but toward passing a scan.