Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [1240]

Bid her good-by? I moved my—alien—feet, caught at the chair—it fell prone, dead, like the other one, in her room. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1240

Note

The personification of the fallen chair as ‘dead, like the other one’ extends the violence of the parting into the inanimate objects of the room, turning the furniture into casualties.