Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [160]

Yes, precisely: I feel some alien body in my brain, like the finest eyelash in the eye. You do not feel your body, but that eye with the lash in it—you can’t forget it for a second… . — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 160

Note

The physicalized metaphor of a psychological disturbance as a microscopic irritant inside an eye creates a visceral, claustrophobic intimacy for the narrator’s paranoia.