Book Club - November
All done!
I noted a reference in the title of Chapter 30, to that of a poet who was mentioned in the text.
"It's Time, My Friend" by Alexander Pushkin.
It's time, my friend, it's time!
The peace is craved by hearts...
Days flow after days - each hour departs
a bit of life - and both, you and I,
plan a long life, but could abruptly die.
The world hasn't happiness,
but there is freedom and peace.
And long have I daydreamed the life of bliss -
and long have planned, a tired slave, the flight,
to the removed abode of labor and delight.
The peace is craved by hearts...
Days flow after days - each hour departs
a bit of life - and both, you and I,
plan a long life, but could abruptly die.
The world hasn't happiness,
but there is freedom and peace.
And long have I daydreamed the life of bliss -
and long have planned, a tired slave, the flight,
to the removed abode of labor and delight.
Peace was certainly an ending point, for the Master and Margarita as well as Pilate. For Ivan, even though he's disturbed on the Spring's full moon, and for Moscow itself. They told themselves lies about what they had experienced and what was responsible, which I took as commentary on the entire Soviet system.
I'll go to the library this weekend and see what I find to read next, of course I have some things on my shelf I could start, but I'm never ready right away. I need to let this story sit in my mind for a day or two.
So what are you reading??
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