“Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can!”

— Mikhail Bulgakov, book The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The End of Apartment No. 50', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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