[ Mostly. His face doesn't move with the lie; his voice doesn't let a single trace of uncertainty slip through the cracks. He's had a lot of practice with this, with being Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin, born January 1985, in a city known as St. Petersburg, not Petrograd. ]
The people here, they do not know that. There are others and they think we have always been here. [ A beat. Not exactly true. He revises that statement. ] Well. They are thinking the Americans have always been here.
[ He knows he doesn't need to finish that sentence. It's 1961 and their idioms fall flat and he doesn't laugh when they expect him to or force smiles when they do or fumble through their language with the same patterns of inflection, and of the acronym WASP, only one descriptor applies to him.
Even that, in the eyes of men like the Americans' Patton and the Britons' Kipling, is disputable. ]
cw discussion of ethnic discrimination
[ Mostly. His face doesn't move with the lie; his voice doesn't let a single trace of uncertainty slip through the cracks. He's had a lot of practice with this, with being Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin, born January 1985, in a city known as St. Petersburg, not Petrograd. ]
The people here, they do not know that. There are others and they think we have always been here. [ A beat. Not exactly true. He revises that statement. ] Well. They are thinking the Americans have always been here.
[ He knows he doesn't need to finish that sentence. It's 1961 and their idioms fall flat and he doesn't laugh when they expect him to or force smiles when they do or fumble through their language with the same patterns of inflection, and of the acronym WASP, only one descriptor applies to him.
Even that, in the eyes of men like the Americans' Patton and the Britons' Kipling, is disputable. ]