The Master and Margarita

Fagott with the Master of Ceremonies Bengalsky’s Head | Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master and Margarita”

© Gennadiy Kalinovskiy

The cat latched onto the master of ceremonies' thin hair and, howling wildly, with two turns tore this head from his full neck. Two and a half thousand people in the theater screamed as one. Blood from the torn arteries in the neck gushed up in fountains and drenched his dress shirt and tailcoat. The cat handed the head to Fagott, who lifted it by the hair and showed it to the audience, and this head screamed desperately for the entire theater: “Call a doctor!”

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