David’s Reviews > The School on 103rd Street: A Novel > Status Update

That being said there’s also the whiplash of three pages of conversation where an electrical expert (who was described in his introduction with the r-word) is actually so smart that he’s unable to simplify his technobabble dialogue to the point that the rest of the characters (who are a doctor, an ex-military engineer, a non-violence social activist, and a man that used to help America overthrow governments) are ready to throw hands while yelling at him to speak English in a way that Chris Tucker would find excessive, so it’s also weirdly a bit of a forerunner to (Key &) Peele’s sketch work as well.