Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [12]

On days like this the whole world is cast of the same impregnable, eternal glass as the Green Wall, as all our buildings. On days like this you see the bluest depth of things, their hitherto unknown, astonishing equations—you see them even in the most familiar everyday objects. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 12

Note

The metaphor of the world as cast in the same sterile glass as the state architecture grounds ideological uniformity in material texture.