Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — The Bell—The Mirrorlike Sea… (1924)
“ Every three seconds the powerful tail of the Integral will eject flame and gases into universal space, and the Integral will soar higher and higher, like a flaming Tamerlane of happiness! I watched how the workers, true to the Taylor system, would bend down, then unbend and turn around swiftly and rhythmically like levers of an enormous engine. ”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — The Bell—The Mirrorlike Sea… (1924)
“ Not now though, for I know that I have imagination; that is what my illness consists of. And more than that: I know that it is a wonderful illness—one does not want to be cured, simply does not want to! We ascended the glass steps; the world spread itself below us like the palm of a hand. You, readers of these records, whoever you may be, you have the sun above you. And if you ever were ill, as I am now, then you know what kind of sun there is or may be in the morning; you know that pinkish, lucid, warm gold; the air itself looks a little pinkish ”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — The Bell—The Mirrorlike Sea… (1924)
“ I watched the monstrous glass cranes easily rolling over the glass rails; like the workers themselves, they would obediently turn, bend down, and bring their loads inward into the bowels of the Integral. All seemed one: humanized machine and mechanized humans. ”
