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I'm keeping reading Shklovsky. This paragraph is not that funny for a non-Russian ear, but it reminded me of two great anecdotes I want to share. (01/03)

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«Once they called me and asked to go to the <army> volunteer <Osip> Brik.

There was such a comrade in our squad. Everybody knew him: on his test drive, he crushed three cars at once».

VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY. THIRD FACTORY

Brick was, let's say, part of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's extended family, a famous person in his own right and Shklovsky's mate. This story reminded me of a couple of literary anecdotes in the same vein.

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