The Master and Margarita

Margarita Inspects the Ballrooms | Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master and Margarita”

© Gennadiy Kalinovskiy

The ball immediately descended upon her as light, and with it, sound and smell. Carried along by Koroviev's arm, Margarita found herself in a tropical forest. Red-breasted green-tailed parrots clung to the lianas, jumped along them, and screamed deafeningly: “I am delighted!” But the forest quickly ended, and its bathhouse stuffiness was immediately replaced by the coolness of a ballroom with columns of some yellowish, sparkling stone. This hall, just like the forest, was completely empty.

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