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without rereading my favorite sections
from my favorite novel:
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
"On the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan . . . a tom cat, huge as a hog, black as pitch or a crow, and with huge mustache, for all the world like a rakish cavalryman's . . . walked over to the boarding step of an 'A' streetcar waiting at the stop, brazenly elbowed aside a woman who squealed as she saw him, grasped the hand rails and even attempted to give the conductor a coin . . .. . . Neither the conductor, nor the passengers were as astounded by the situation itself -- a cat climbing into a streetcar--which would not have been half so bad, as by his wish to pay his fare!
"The tom, it turned out, was not only a solvent, but also a disciplined beast. At the conductor's first cry, he ceased his advance, got down from the step, and sat down at the stop, rubbing his whiskers with the coin. But as soon as the conductor pulled the cord and the cars started, the tom proceeded to do what anyone else would who had been expelled from a streetcar but must nevertheless get to his destination. Allowing all three cars to go by, the tom jumped up onto the rear of the last one, sank his claws into a rubber tube projecting from the wall, and rode away, thus saving himself the fare."
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