Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [1059]

Good-by, beloved readers, with whom I’ve lived through so many pages, to whom, having contracted the soul sickness, I have exposed all of myself, to the last crushed little screw, the last broken spring … — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1059

Note

Breaking the fourth wall not as a meta-trick, but as a mechanical self-diagnosis of a broken interior.