Friday, April 15, 2011
Сергей Юрьенен, Дочь Генерального Секретаря (1999)
The first footnote here is my current absolute favourite example of Russian prudishness.
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It says 'puta', and the footnote basically says 'w... (Spanish)'. It's like all those great eighteenth-century texts where big rumbustuous characters say things like 'D--n his eyes, sir, d--n his eyes for the pox-ridden son of a w---e that he is.' I thought it was funny.
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