“Oriental Attitude, discipline, serenity, call it what you like, wallow as deep in it as you can get, but he’s still in there, Hicks, still the same dirt-stupid gorilla always ready to take short pay for beating up whoever he’s told to. You think you’ve gotten past it, but those we all report to, they know better, they know that once you’re down here with us, you’ll never change, there’ll be no getting rid of that inner torpedo. Whenever they need him, they will know how to call him out to do their bidding.”
