Russian humor is to ordinary humor what backwoods fundamentalist poisonous snake handling is to a petting zoo. Russian humor is slapstick, only you actually die.
Ian Frazier writes about the strange, Russian humor of Daniil Kharms for the New York Review of Books. (via millionsmillions)
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