1. I have this completely cockamamie theory about Nabokov which no one is going to buy but this is twitter, so I'll put it forward.
4. Here's the thing: while writing Pnin in early 1950s, Nabokov couldn't possibly have read Master & Margarita
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5. Master and Margarita written between 1928 and 1940, first published in 1967. Existed before Pnin but not available to Nabokov.
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6. It's possible that both Nabokov and Bulgakov were influenced by the same writers, leading to creation of similar scenes independently.
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