the Lipson textbook

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This link has been all over the Russian-speaking LJ in the last few days, and I feel I should share it with you. Thanks to doriy for pointing me to the whole thing, most posts just link to individual bits and pieces... so here goes, undisputedly the most hilarious Russian textbook ever.

Not that it has any serious mistakes... it's just, well, psychedelic. I'm sure it was deliberately written this way, as a satire both on the simplistic language of textbooks and on Soviet reality.

I particularly recommend the two poems in prose about concrete mixers (one, two), and to those who don't need an English translation, this dialogue (very silly, but with a sublime touch of Gogol).