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just finished the Randall translation. really interesting to see Zamyatin’s extrapolations to the endpoints of Fordism and Taylorism in regards to the dehumanization of its workers. want to revisit Brave New World and 1984 to really see the through lines and threads that started here.
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Incessant Excess posted:I, a novice reader, read this book since it was selected here and it was pretty short. Unfortunately, I found sections in the final third (from the Integral test flight on) tough to follow. As far as I understood, the test flight takes place but the planned takeover of the ship does not because the Mephi were betrayed to the secret police? Can someone confirm/correct this and maybe elaborate on why? this is from what I understood: U has been reading D-503’s journals and tips off the Guardians to the takeover plot. she doesn’t directly implicate D-503 or I-330 because she is afraid that if she did, D-503 wouldn’t want to be with her (disregarding the fact that D-503 wants to kill her for this but stops). D-503 then gets taken to the Benefactor because he tried to suicide the Integral (and was stopped by the Second Builder).
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voting for the time-traveling 9/11 dog
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