Salvador Dali, ’Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man’, oil on canvas, 1943
The idea had never come into my head before – but then the thing is precisely thus: we who live on this earth are constantly walking over a burbling, blood-red sea of fire hidden there, deep within the maw of the earth. But we never think of that. But now suppose that this thin shell under our feet were suddenly turned to glass, that we were suddenly to see –
I had turned to glass. I saw into myself, deep within me. There were two Is. One I was my former self, D-503, the number D-503, while the other…Up to now he had merely shoved his shaggy hands just a little out of the shell, but now all of him was crawling out; the shell was cracking, any minute now it would fly into smithereens and…and what then?
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, (1920) Trans., Bernard Guilbert Guerney, Penguin, London, 1984, 67-68
Part one/to be continued…
materialism, mysticism and art 
Once hatched we have no other choice but to learn to fly?
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Hi Jason,
Zamyatin will reply to you in the next post.
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Kewl. Perhaps you could let me know when s/he does by posting something below as a heads up
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Hi Jason,
I’m reposting 4 posts I did in 2014 (I’ve added images to them). The links to the other 3 should be at the bottom of the first post. If they aren’t showing for some reason please let me know so I can look into it. The other way to see the posts would be either to search for ‘Zamyatin: We’ or read them ‘tonight’ and ‘tomorrow’ when I post the last two.
‘Rationality’ was a ‘problem’ in the Soviet Union no less than it is in the West – and for basically the same reason – control.
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Have anyone of you ever thought that the authors that created the borg in startrek where extrapolating the continuation of WE after the take of the INTERGRAL…
We… are borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated in the collective.
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