[He turns, and takes the book back to the table to deposit it carefully beside his research notes. The table is cluttered but not strictly messy, and Master and Margarita is open to the page on which the editor Berlioz is decapitated by a tram. On the notes beside the book he's written and circled the word, электробытовой, and the dictionary was fetched to divine its meaning.]

Quarantine seems to lack discernment as far as bringing people from any one singular time or place goes. I myself am from New Providence Island, late of the Bahamas, in 1717.