Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [621]

Rising from the earth-bare stony ribs, the yellow grinning jaws of walls, an ancient stove with a vertical chimney—a ship forever petrified among the stony splashes of red and yellow brick. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 621

Note

The architectural ruins of the Ancient House rendered as a petrified marine skeleton, binding modern industrial vocabulary to ancient geological decay.