the story was ideally suited for a group of materially oppressed , uneducated russians of modest lucidity , since it cruelly and cleanly exposed the unscalable peaks of american stupidity ( the browncoat thought his companion had rather diminished the effect by announcing immediately what his story was about and what conclusions its listeners should draw from it but nevermind it may have been a fancy trick he couldnt fully comprehend at that time so say on ) .