“Give me a name, America, make of me a Buzz or Chip or Spike. Bathe me in amnesia and clothe me in your powerful unknowing. Enlist me in your J. Crew and hand me my mouse ears! No longer a historian but a man without histories let me be. …Scan me, digitize me, beam me up.”

– Professor Solanka, who emigrates to the US in the hope of a melting-pot makeover. From the novel “Fury” (2001). The novel is interesting in that it gives us a glimpse of how other countries see us.