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Stepan Bogdanovich,’
devil knows who she was
‘Professor of black magic Woland,’
findirector Rimsky
Финдиректор [findirektor] is a typical Soviet contraction for financial director - the Soviet language was interspersed with such expressions: Nakompros, Komsomol, Gulag, agitprop and many more. In The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov invented more of such contractions and acronyms, like Massolit and Dramlit, to denounce this habit. ~ Jan Vanhellemont
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‘Hel-lo!’ someone barked in Styopa’s head. ‘Just what we needed!’
devil knows where.
It is even difficult to convey the porridge in Styopa’s head.
this devilry with the bl...
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twenty-fourth of April,
dear citizens,
Narrator? speaking to readers? question
Rimsky.
citizens? Eh?
a certain strange specimen, long as a pole, and in a pince-nez
in the mirror a stalwart black cat passed and also disappeared.
you diddled her out of a vacation.’
Haha
fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other.
Haha
This is my retinue.’
this one too many is precisely you.’
Haha
some terrible swinishness
don’t do devil a thing,
the cat snitched,
a short but extraordinarily broad-shouldered man, with a bowler hat on his head and a fang sticking out of his mouth,
And with flaming red hair besides.
Azazello,’
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heaping his plate with frankfurters.
Haha
chuck him the devil out of Moscow?‘
The Combat between the Professor and the Poet
Ivan Nikolaevich Homeless,
From a habit of touching things needlessly,
Haha mee too
And he almost started telling about Pontius Pilate, but restrained himself,
Haha
the devil’s own wreck
the thought might get rooted in them that he was a violent madman.
Haha
charily and glumly,
they did not pester him too much, and were not surprised at the information about Pontius Pilate.
Haha theyve heard crazier
Simile haha
‘Like Pontius Pilate!’ thought Ivan.
Haha
‘Doctor Stravinsky,’
SAID HE
has seen Pontius Pilate in person.’
‘Devil knows
‘he was personally on Pontius Pilate’s balcony, there’s no doubt of it.
How does he know? Fallen under Woland’s spell? Question
otherwise he’ll do untold harm.’
sir, I’ll check you out of here right now, if you tell me you’re normal. Not prove, but merely tell. So, then, are you normal?’
before replying he thought very, very hard, wrinkling his forehead, and at last said firmly: ‘I am normal.’
The question is: can one, by acting in such fashion, catch or arrest anyone?
And if you’re a normal man, you yourself will answer: by no means.
‘It’s mainly Pontius Pilate. But the drawers, too.
His will seemed to crack, and he felt himself weak, in need of advice.
Explain all your suspicions and accusations against this man on paper.
People say all kinds of things! One mustn’t believe everything.’
