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Master and Margarita
Encore! There are very few books that I enjoy reading again and again, and my favorite of these is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This book was written in the 1930s, but published...
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Poisoning the Pen
This post is a review of the short story that ended Mikhail Bulgakov’s career: No. 13 The Elpit Workers’ Commune. Why did this story end Bulgakov’s career? In answer to that, here’s a quote from The...
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The Asymmetry of Heaven and Hell
A little thought experiment today. I watched a documentary called How Art Made the World: The Day Pictures Were Born (BBC 2005). It offers a theory of how 2-D pictures were invented: prehistoric...
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Pontius Pilate and Christ
St. Andrew’s Church on Kiev’s Andriyivskyy Descent, where the Bulgakov family lived for a time. The travesty that is A Young Doctor’s Notebook left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so this weekend I...
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