I only mention it because sometimes there’s a chelovek– I won’t say a hero, because what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a chelovek. And I’m talking about this Dude here — sometimes there’s a chelovek who, well, he’s the chelovek for his time and place. He fits right in there; and that’s this Dude, sitting in the cab of an excavator with a hammer attachment on the boom. And even if he’s a lazy chelovek — and this Dude was probably that, and lit on vodak, too; quite possibly the laziest in whatever oblast that is, which would place him high in the running for laziest worldwide — but sometimes there’s a chelovek. Sometimes there’s a chelovek…

Well, I lost my train of thought here. But — aw hell, I done introduced him enough. Let’s see what he can do with that bridge.

[Sometimes there’s a chelovek named  Жерар in Seattle that sends us stuff. Amerikanskiy Daydzhest]