“Totalitarian terror is random. Nothing—not even an upside-down world, an inside-out world, a world that rewards the absence of soul and prizes the death of nature—can be as frightening as a world that makes no sense. True terror works by making everyone believe that they can be imprisoned, condemned, beaten, raped, executed anytime—punished for nothing and everything, without cause, warning, or recourse to justice.”
— Masha Gessen, Foreword to We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (trans. Clarence Brown)
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