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Likhodeev.’
the receiver inquired in a most repulsive nasal voice.
Koroviev? Question
The administrator was choking with the desire to expose the malefactors, and, strange as it was, the anticipation of something enjoyable was born in him.
yellow-bellied storm cloud was creeping low over Moscow.
the summer toilet
short, fat man with what seemed to him a cat-like physiognomy.
Behemoth!
the hole in the seat.
Haha
hair red as fire, albugo in one eye, a fang in his mouth
Azazello!
Varenukha, nearly insane,
Styopa Likhodeev’s apartment.
completely naked girl — red-haired, her eyes burning with a phosphorescent gleam.
Halle the vampire
those palms were still colder, that their cold was the cold of ice.
Ivan Splits in Two
Ivan
attempts to write a statement concerning the terrible consultant had gone nowhere.
Praskovya Fyodorovna,
nonsensicality emerged at once: what’s this - came with the deceased?
Haha
that namesake composer, unknown to anyone, was also dangling here,
Haha
The head and the consultant’s prediction led him to the thought of Pontius Pilate,
the frightening cloud with smoking edges appeared from far off
the rainbow that stretched across the sky.
the rainbow melted away, how the sky saddened and faded, how the woods turned black.
how changed his thinking was.
why, tell me, did I get furious at this mysterious consultant, magician and professor with the black and empty eye?
a candle in my hand,
Diogenes
the new Ivan objected to the old,
mysterious person!
Haha
The man was personally acquainted with Pontius Pilate, what could be more interesting than that?
I started devil knows what!
A major occurrence, really — a magazine editor gets run over!
unexpectedly mortal.
Haha
‘A fool!’ a bass voice said
Haha
Black Magic and Its Exposure
Variety acts
razoblatcheniya , exposure
A clown
Grigory Danilovich Rimsky.
here discovered that his telephone was dead.
the make-up man.
But most remarkable of all were the black magician’s two companions:
‘No getting on a tram with that one,’
Haha
the make-up man
Georges Bengalsky.
Satire on “political educators” attached to most public endeavors.
Fagott,‘
the checkered clown,
Koro...
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Haha
Bengalsky
‘as in a question of much greater importance: have the city folk changed inwardly?’ ‘Yes, that is the most important question, sir.’
Haha apparently not. Showered with clothes and money.
in the wings,
It’s ten-rouble bills!’
‘By God, they’re real! Ten-rouble bills!’
