Mikhail Zoshchenko for the ask, please!
Hello dear!
Mikhail Zoshchenko: what would you call the most absurd experience of yours?
Let me think. There are many to choose from, but since it’s Russian lit themed asks, I’m going to share an experience I had which involved Russian. So, I and a friend of mine were going to watch a movie, but that film had, like, maximum 10 views on letterboxd. It was a stupid arthouse-type foreign porn movie. Since it was literally impossible for us to hire/buy that film because it wasn’t available online, I had to download it via very illegal sources. I put on my hacker hoodie and said “ok, i’m gonna find and download that movie at whatever cost because we’re both horny.” I entered some very scary looking Russian websites, typed everything in Russian, and used a literal dictionary for unknown words to find that particular movie. It was terrifying. We both rated the movie 2/5 and not 0.5/5, by the way, because the actor’s you-know-what was *chef’s kiss*. At the end, I survived, but it’s been more than four months and some of my google advertisements are still in Russian. I think I’m being followed by the fbi.
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