There is a Russian author who believes Margarita was Gorky's girlfriend.
Tom Send a noteboard - 22/07/2010 03:15:13 AM
Her name was Maria Andreeva. She got lots of money from Moscow millionaire Savva Morozov and handed most of that money over to the Bolsheviks. At the same time, however, she was a good person. She was oddly never even accused during the whole of the Great Terror and all the later Stalinist purges (probably because she kept quiet about what she thought). She was never married to Gorky but lived with him, and some (including a famous Russian author) believe that Gorky was the "master" and that his death was the tragedy that showed the complete death of literature in the Soviet Union.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
The Joint Book Club: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
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The murder of Judas.
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See, that seemed obvious to me.
28/07/2010 02:55:02 AM
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Oh, so that was them making up a story to tell anyone else if needed? *NM*
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The walls have ears. Nobody would know that better than Aphranius and Pilate.
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I'm reserving a spot for my comments but not posting them just yet.
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I had a very interesting conversation about the novel yesterday.
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Re: I had a very interesting conversation about the novel yesterday.
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My thoughts
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Does this story translate well?
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About evil in this book.
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There is a Russian author who believes Margarita was Gorky's girlfriend.
22/07/2010 03:15:13 AM
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Aha. There's the question I was going to ask:
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To the devil with this. I don't care if I am showing my ignorance.
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Any time you have a dual story, the invitation to draw parallels exists.
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For all the expressed interest, this book club discussion is languishing. *NM*
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Names.
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They're not common.
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I've finished.
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Civil Rights? You do realize that Russia never imported slaves, right?
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