Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [316]

The sky is hidden by a milky-golden veil and you cannot see what is above, beyond it The ancients knew that God— their greatest, bored skeptic—was there. We know that there is only a crystal-blue, naked, indecent nothing. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 316

Note

The contrast between ancient belief and modern sterile certainty, leading immediately into the fracturing of the narrator’s self-concept.