America

The first bright detail is a sparrow at Sheremetyevo Airport. It flies around the hall, revives the landscape.

Fly for a long time. It is easier and most pleasant to measure the road in films. If you do not part, three good films with breaks on a dorm and food. In other words, relax and have fun.

At the JFK airport, a taxi dispatcher attacks us. Trained not to trust the system and avoid intermediaries, my daughter and I go out into the air and trust the first taxi driver. It turns out, in vain: heating a round sum. Experience cannot be transferred and m. Or maybe this does not work in Moscow anymore? Experience is obsolete.

Two full days in New York. The first is through the icy wind, as if experiencing us for resistance. The second is a pure soft spring, unprecedented here.

In the late metro, we go with a marginal. He, not silent, speaks in front of himself, repeating some periods of speech loudly and repeatedly, like repli or mantras. At some point, he rises, retires into the space between the wagons and, apparently, delicately celebrates the need. “As at home,” I later tell me to Lena. “Why? She is surprised. “He was at home.” It turns out that we were visiting.

An important difference between NY and Moscow is a lot of fast foods are much lower than McDonald's.

Skyscrapers are beautiful. Large water is beautiful. In particular, we were taught that Brighton Beach is primarily funny Russian Jews. But Brighton Beach is primarily the ocean. For some reason you do not wait for this.

Question to backfill

If you meet unfamiliar Russian emigrants with experience, their main question: how are things in Russia? The correct answer is known in advance: everything is very bad and in the visible future will not be corrected. Your answer, however, is expected with sincere interest - whether it will be correct. The second, incorrect option: everything is approx. As a result, you will be identified either as a normal man or as a Putin's postponement. The verbose response with changes and shades leads to cognitive dissonance. You yourself just said that it was bad; How can it be good?

I share observations with my friends, who, thank God, do not need to explain anything (they themselves saw and thought) - they only smile. The effect is well studied.

A couple of banalities.

The shameless big lie and the annoying stupid propaganda raise incredulity in at least some thinking person. Moderate lies and smart propaganda bring up gullibility. As a result, we are incredulous, and we cannot judge us by what we are fed. I would not say about the Americans so offhand.

The road to Washington

Car services here wear the names of not old communists, but even more unexpected. For example, Walt Whitman. For some reason it sounds pretty. And the fact that Whitman was not directly related to the car service is not annoying.