Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortalโthere's the trick!
Mikhail BulgakovBut worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jewellerโs wifeโs ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita
Mikhail Bulgakov