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when the prison guards learned that some five hundred ill-chosen husbands had departed Naples and Palermo for ever, in the heat of the moment they strangled Madame Tofana in prison.’
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Simile
‘But this one is a boring woman,’
young, about twenty, of remarkably beautiful figure, but with somehow restless and importunate eyes. ‘What handkerchief?’ asked Margarita.
when she worked in a café, the owner once invited her to the pantry, and nine months later she gave birth to a boy, took him to the forest, stuffed the handkerchief into his mouth, and then buried the boy in the ground.
‘Queen,’ the cat suddenly creaked from below, ‘what, may I ask, does the owner have to do with it? It wasn’t he who smothered the infant in the forest!’
Misogyny
the great ball of the full moon!’
‘Frieda, Frieda, Frieda!
In Goethe’s Faust, it was Margarete who killed her infant child.
‘The marquise.. ,’ muttered Koroviev, ‘poisoned her father, two brothers and two sisters for the inheritance ... The queen is delighted!
Why burn the maid’s face with the curling-irons?
gets stabbed
sorcerer and alchemist
wonderful brothel
Moscow dres...
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dreamer and an eccentric.
he went and sold her to a brothel...’
Simile metaphor
A sharp pain, as if from a needle, suddenly pierced Margarita’s right arm, and, clenching her teeth, she rested her elbow on the post.
Neither Gaius Caesar Caligula nor Messalina interested Margarita any longer,
Maliuta Skuratov.
What about Frieda?
The worst suffering was caused by her right knee, which was being kissed. It became swollen, the skin turned blue,
‘It’s some new one,’ Koroviev was saying,
Azazello visited him once and, over the cognac, whispered some advice to him on how to get rid of a certain man whose exposures he was extremely afraid of.
Hella
Natasha,
again drew her under the bloody shower, again massaged her body, a...
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And once more Margarita flew out of the room with the pool.
there now raged an ape jazz band.
hamadryads
only one name
Frieda
was rec...
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she saw mountains of oysters in huge stone basins.
Then she saw polar bears playing concertinas and dancing the Kamarinsky
A salamander-conjurer who did not burn in the fireplace
the dais that appeared in the middle of this open space in the room.
At the last stroke of the clock, which came from no one knew where, silence fell on the crowd of guests.
Woland
on this platter Margarita saw a man’s severed head with the front teeth knocked out.
silence continued to reign, broken only once by the far-off sound, inexplicable under the circumstances, of a doorbell,
‘Mikhail Alexand...
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Berlioz! Question
on the dead face Margarita saw, with a shudder, living eyes filled with ...
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fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
But we are now interested in what follows, and not in this already accomplished fact.
in the presence of my guests, though they serve as proof of quite a different theory,
your theory is both solid and clever. However, one theory is as good as another.
You go into non-being,
I will joyfully drink to being!’
‘hell appear before you.
