You Said "Ass"

I was editing my latest grant proposal, the one that only talks about Russian lit and must be translated into Russian, when I discovered in the second paragraph: "In order to fully ass Lermontov..."

Heh.

How does one "ass" someone?

I wonder if Lermontov had a nice ass?

Kundera points out again and again and again in Life is Elsewhere that he had short legs.

Back to work.

-Zh.