Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [1270]

I found myself in one of the public toilets in an underground station. Above, everything was perishing, the greatest and most rational civilization in history was collapsing, but here, by someone’s irony, all was as it had been—beautiful and still. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1270

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Masterful juxtaposition of apocalyptic civilizational collapse with the mundane, enduring absurdity of the public restroom.