![]() If you’re making whiskey, vodka, or some other spirit at home or in the backwoods, then it’s moonshine. The term moonshine is basically a catch all for any type of illicitly distilled spirit. However, before we talk about the drinks, a few words need to be said about moonshine itself. And, not surprisingly, there are a few strong mixed drinks in the collection. You end with something that actually tastes half decent, while still letting you lean into the passion and history surrounding moonshine. Yet, drink it they do, which is why moonshine mixed drinks are so important.Ĭombining moonshine with other ingredients helps to knock the edge off it. When made well, it doesn’t smell like much on its own, but the intensity of the alcohol can hit you hard, which might make you wonder why anyone would want to drink the stuff. This hero had gone into the abyss, gone irrevocably, the son of the astrologer-king, forgiven on the eve of Sunday, the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the equestrian Pontius Pilate.Moonshine is hardly the most refined spirit. Someone was setting the master free, as he himself had just set free the hero he had created. Thus spoke Margarita, walking with the master to their eternal home, and it seemed to the master that Margarita’s words flowed in the same way as the stream they had left behind flowed and whispered, and the master’s memory, the master’s anxious, needled memory began to fade. And you will no longer be able to drive me away. Sleep will strengthen you, you will reason wisely. You will fall asleep, having put on your greasy and eternal nightcap, you will fall asleep with a smile on your lips. They will play for you, they will sing for you, you will see what light is in the room when the candles are burning. I know that in the evenings you will be visited by those you love, those who interest you and who will never trouble you. I can already see the Venetian window and the twisting vine, it climbs right up to the roof. Look, there ahead is your eternal home, which you have been given as a reward. ‘Listen to the stillness,’ Margarita said to the master, and the sand rustled under her bare feet, ‘listen and enjoy what you were not given in life - peace. It could only be seen that, following his faithful guardian, he, too, rushed headlong down the path of moonlight. It was impossible to tell whether he was weeping or laughing, or what he shouted. ![]() The man in the white cloak with blood-red lining rose from the armchair and shouted something in a hoarse, cracked voice. The path of moonlight so long awaited by the procurator stretched right to this garden, and the first to rush down it was the sharp-eared dog. Over the black abyss into which the walls had gone, a boundless city lit up, dominated by gleaming idols above a garden grown luxuriously over many thousands of moons. Only the platform with the stone armchair remained. The mountains turned the master’s voice to thunder, and by this same thunder they were destroyed. ‘You’re free! You’re free! He is waiting for you!’ He cupped his hands to his mouth and cried out so that the echo leaped over the unpeopled and unforested mountains: The master seemed to have been expecting this, as he stood motionless and looked at the seated procurator. ‘Well, now you can finish your novel with one phrase!’ ![]() Here Woland turned to the master and said: Reinforcing this idea of moonlight as peace, the master and Margarita are also depicted as walking to their “moonlit” cottage, where they will live out their eternal union. Once the master frees Pilate, however, moonlight comes to symbolize peace: Pilate is freed to join Yeshua, led up a moonlit path by his faithful dog, Banga. ![]() ![]() That’s why, when the master, Margarita, and Woland’s entourage meet with Pilate in the novel’s final psychedelic dreamscape, he is depicted in a kind of moonlit limbo, unable to find any peace because of his grave decision. Pilate tries to retreat into the moonlight in order to sleep, but has a terrible insomnia brought on by his guilt regarding the execution of Yeshua Ha-Nozri. But moonlight, in the Yershalaim narrative about Pontius Pilate, also comes to represent a restlessness of the spirit. For example, the last thing Berlioz perceives when he is run over by a tram is the fragmentation of the moonlight. Moonlight is a complex symbol that takes on different meanings throughout the novel. ![]()
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