:10:18
Where did you get that hat?
:10:20
Alex gave it to me.
:10:24
Take it off.
:10:25
Why?
:10:27
Because I told you to, that's why.
:10:29
I think he looks cool.
:10:31
Who asked you to speak?
:10:32
Did I ask you to speak?
:10:34
Did Mama ask you to speak?
:10:36
Did Grandfather ask you to speak?
:10:38
SHUT UP!
:10:40
Don't talk to her like that!
:10:42
Papa, I already have one son
walking around Odessa...
:10:45
...looking like a raving lunatic.
:10:49
I don't need another.
:10:51
But Papa...
:10:54
My legal name is Alexander Perchov,
but all of my friends dub me Alex...
:10:59
...because this is much more flaccid
to utter.
:11:02
That is Father retrieving his fist
from the right side of my face.
:11:06
Father is a first-rate puncher.
:11:09
This is my miniature brother, Igor.
:11:12
I am tutoring him to be a man
of this world.
:11:15
For an example, I exhibited him
a smutty magazine three days yore.
:11:19
Why is it called sixty-nine?
:11:21
I explain it to him that this is
because it was invented in the year 1969.
:11:25
I know this because my friend Grisha knows
a friend of the nephew of the inventor.
:11:29
What did people do before 1969?
:11:35
He is a genius, my miniature brother.
:11:38
He will be made a VIP
if I have a thing to do with it.
:11:43
This is Grandfather. Like my father
and myself, he too is dubbed Alex.
:11:48
My grandmother, Anna, died two years
before of a cancer in her brain.
:11:53
Precluding this,
Grandfather became very melancholy...
:11:56
...and also, he says, blind.