Brik and Rora have arrived in the surprisingly Americanized Chisinau. Brik walks into a convince store filled with Americans items such as Duracell, Dial soap Wrigley and Marlboro. He senses is foreignness when the people at the store look at him funny and the concierge thought he wanted "girls" instead of "glasses". But they also felt right at home while eating a the McDonalds. Rora gets annoyed with Brik for talking so much and saying "Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem." Is Rora just being mean or will Brik will never really understand life. Brik goes through his thoughts of wanting to be alone and not needing Rora or Mary, but he does. Rora explains the rest of the story about Rambo and how he ended up killing the people who worked for him and now works for the government as a trade off. The two then goes to a historical site to find out more information about Jewish culture where they meet Iuliana, a beautiful young student that Brik seems smitten on. Brik asks her about Averburch and she has a family relevance to that name so she begins to weep and they go to a grave yard to find out more information. There is where the real question of life or death comes into play. He claims to have lost a part of himself in that cemetery and that he was everyone else there but himself. He dreams of being with Iuliana and kissing her and holding her, which makes me believe he would cheat his wife. He questions "What is the world about- life or death?" Who is more important the living or the dead? Are there more dead people than living? He is really questioning the meaning of life.
Olga is being carried into the police office, heavy with sadness and somber from her bothers death. The police send in Herr Taube who they think can relate to her more but Olga dismisses him. The are trying to lie to Olga so that she will be willing to give her brother a proper burial. They have found the body which they thew away and it is now dismembered, missing the heart. They want to properly bury him because news o riots and revolution are scheming within the anarchists and they are considering Averburch a martyr and want revenge. But Olga refuses to have him buried properly because it is not proper after what has happened. She gets so upset she passes out and dreams about the time with the police back home invaded her home when she was young. They ruined her house, tried to rape her and kill her entire family. The police now offer her anything for her to agree with the proper funeral.
Protubances-a protuberant part, projection or bulge.
Kaddish- an ancient Jewish liturgical prayer largely written in Aramaic and used in various forms to separate sections of the liturgy.
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