Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [7]

Yes, to integrate the grandiose cosmic equation. Yes, to unbend the wild, primitive curve and straighten it to a tangent—an asymptote—a straight line. For the line of the One State is the straight line. The great, divine, exact, wise straight line— the wisest of all lines. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 7

Note

The prose transitions from state-mandated rhetoric into an intimate, trembling internal cadence, using geometric terminology not as abstraction but as a physical liturgy of absolute order.