An e-mail with the subject “My sweetheart friend…”, in addition to providing a link that will make me the BEST OF THE BEST on xmas night, included this:
‘The editor was a well-read man and able to make skilful reference to
the ancient historians, such as the famous Philo of Alexandria and the
brilliantly educated Josephus Flavius, neither of whom mentioned a word of
Jesus’ existence. With a display of solid erudition, Mikhail Alexandrovich
informed the poet that incidentally, the passage in Chapter 44 of the
fifteenth book of Tacitus’ Annals, where he describes the execution of
Jesus, was nothing but a later forgery.
    The poet, for whom everything the editor was saying was a novelty,
listened attentively to Mikhail Alexandrovich, fixing him with his bold
from Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”
November 26th, 2006
by Nannie
I read “The Master and Margarita” when my lover was studying comparative Literature.
“Group Portrait With Lady” “Tin Drum”…those were good reading days.