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The poet was no longer concerned with Berlioz’s fate.
certain visions passed before him. Thus, he saw a city, strange, incomprehensible,
gloomy and merciless Anto...
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a treeless yellow hill with empty cross-barred posts.
Bald Mountain / Golgotha
‘it will never pass. The poems I used to write were bad poems, and now I understand it.’
the murder at the Patriarch’s Ponds.
Why assume murder, even under hypnosis - he slipped. .
We must repeat,
Narrator
Yes, apartment no. 50 was acting up, and it was impossible to do anything about it.
Baron Meigel,
Killed at the ball for being a stool pigeon and a spy - Margarita drank his blood to end the ball with the others, p. 346.
the unforgettable director of the Variety, Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev,
Varenukha,
the administrator began precisely with a lie.
Haha
‘Pah, the devil!
one red-haired and with a fang, the other fat ... ‘Ah, resembling a cat?’
a tip-off vampire,
Rimsky,
to a bulletproof cell.
Haha
Annushka
ten-dolla...
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ten-rouble bills,
some balderdash about not being answerable for the house management that allowed unclean powers on to the fifth floor, making life unbearable.
Haha
Nikolai Ivanovich
the clownish certificate of his having spent the time at Satan’s ball.
Margarita Nikolaevna as well as her housekeeper Natasha had vanished without a trace.
a tiny portion of truth was embellished with the most luxuriant lies.
many other things that one does not even wish to repeat.
Haha narrator!
a black cat had been seen in a window, sitting on the sill and basking in the sun.
Haha which is what cats do
Koroviev
Azazello
Woland,
the cat
a couple of plumbers were pottering over the harmonica of the steam heating.
Puttering? question
Generally, those going to apartment no. 50 were properly equipped.
Haha
in the living room, on the mantelpiece, beside a crystal pitcher, sat an enormous black cat. He was holding a primus in his paws.
Uh-oh....
‘Ain’t misbehaving,
Haha
he snatched a Browning from behind his back.
Haha - a .30 or .50 caliber recoil-operated air- or water-cooled machine gun fed by a cartridge belt
‘It’s all over,’ the cat said in a weak voice, sprawled languidly in a pool of blood,
‘The only thing that can save a mortally wounded cat,’ said the cat, ‘is a swig of benzene.’
Haha
from there, shredding the wallpaper, climbed the wall
That’s what cats do.
neither the fraudulently recovered cat nor the primus fell down.
benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.
it caused no harm either to the cat or to the visitors.
Haha whew. is Berlioz the only casualty? question
blowing into the muzzle of his Browning and spitting on his paw for some reason.
Haha
or one of the only cases,
Haha others?
shooting proved to be entirely inefficacious.
‘What’s going on in the apartment? They prevent me from working
Haha
‘Well, it’s Behemoth, of course, devil take him!’
The cat crouched, miaowed, shot from the mirror to the window-sill, and disappeared
unfortunately
UNfortunately? question p.o.v. Narrator? Haha?
the corpse of the former Baron Meigel with upthrust chin and glassy eyes.
