Tue
Jun
26
Chapter 3. VOLAPUK
Brown (cop? FBI? DEA?) supplies his “hostage,” East Village attic Milgrim, with just enough Ativan to keep him “not there,” protected from Dennis Birdwell (Milgrim’s former dealer)… and cooperative. Brown is tracking IFs (Illegal Facilitators) “whose crimes facilitated the crimes of others” and needs Milgrim’s rare ability to translate Volapuk, an artificial Russian language using Roman letters to approximate Cyrillic ones.Brown’s IF of focus is a Russian-speaking “ethnic (Cuban-Chinese? Filipino?) version of a younger Johnny Depp,” Alejandro’s cousin Tito. [566 characters]