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The Town Is Abolished
also: Город упраздняется
An invented comedy title used as the punchline of a mock legal-notice: the winning entry in a fictitious prize for the 'impossibly stupid comedy.'
Reading notes
- The Executors of the Merchant Vislyaev §1 The Town Is Abolished
An invented comedy title, the punchline of the sketch's opening mock-announcement: a merchant's estate pays out a prize for the 'impossibly stupid comedy' and this is the winning entry.