Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [676]

Everything bloomed—armchairs, shoes, golden badges, electric bulbs, someone’s dark, shaggy eyes, the faceted columns of the banisters, a handkerchief someone dropped on the stairs, the table of the number on duty, and the delicately brown, speckled cheeks of U over the table. Everything was extraordinary, new, delicate, rosy, moist. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 676

Note

The expansion of sensory perception through falling in love is rendered by making inanimate geometry and mundane objects participate in a botanical awakening.