"Moscow-Petushki", "... Johann von Goethe, an old fool"

Illustration for the poem "Moscow-Petushki" by Venedikt Erofeev.
"Esino - Fryazevo.
...Do you think he didnt want a drink? Of course, he wanted to. So, in order not to get too full himself, he forced all his characters to drink instead of himself. Take Faust for example: who doesnt drink there? Everyone is drinking. Faust drinks and grows younger, Siebel drinks and climbs on Faust, Mephistopheles only does what he drinks and treats the burshes and sings "a flea" to them ... ... Thats how he drank, how he shot himself, your privy councilor. Mephistopheles will drinks, and he is fine, the old dog. Faust adds - and he, old horseradish, already does not knit bast ... "