22-23 (Apricot Soda)

I have to agree with Karen and Nora that the happiness that made her fearless (and possibly reckless) may have been from the freedom she felt she had been granted as she pranced around naked writing notes to her husband of her disappearance. I had originally thought the happiness came out of the prospect that she would see the Master again, but as the ball goes on, she loses this fearlessness and this happiness, probably because she does not end up having the freedom she perceived she had. By the ball, she becomes a puppet. She does everything Koroviev and Behemoth tell her to do, and she serves Woland as the hostess of the ball; she drinks the blood and tries to please all the guests. So much for freedom, eh?
About Woland's omniscience: perhaps Woland himself cannot see everything. For example, when Behemoth cheats during their game of chess. In the book, he is a person, in human form, not a being. He only has two eyes, so that when he's looking at his globe, there's always another side that he can't see. When I think of God knowing everything, I imagine him as entity/spirit, which can be everywhere and see everything all at once. Perhaps all his minions together make him so omniscient and powerful. There's a line, "Magician, choirmaster, wizard, interpreter, or the devil knows what else in truth," which though it repeats characters, and some may overlap, may suggest that when character's from the book have been saying, "the devil know," it's one of them, Woland, Behemoth, Korovie or Azazello (key word OR) that know (267). I think it's weird that for the devil there is an afterlife, and for God there is an afterlife. When we were talking about Berlioz's life ceasing, for he didn't believe that there was an afterlife, it was an offense against both God and the devil. The thought that God and the devil are working parallel, and are almost on the same side, came back to me. Berlioz didn't believe in neither Jesus nor the devil. To believe in one is kind of to believe the other as well.
-Apricot Soda