alien

“Everyone knows what this uniform is, especially illegal aliens.”

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

The through line was Mr. Byrne’s anthropological take on America: the lyrical viewpoint of a curious alien.

The game being played that night was alien.

That included me, even though my parents back in 1958 were neither American citizens nor permanent resident aliens.