"You can only love something you cannot master." from We the first novel banned by the Soviet Union, 1921- by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
WE! Where everyone is a number, right?! I have been mentioning this book in dystopian contexts for ten years and no one has ever heard of it I was beginning to wonder if I was making it the fuck up, or maybe I was the victim of a twisted dystopian novel myself, I read it when I was like 12 (why?!) and it was crazy and good and also crazy good! Damn sweet vindication!
So nice to wake up to you and flagamuffin this morning. I'm happy to vindicate you flags. But what does that quote say about love? about power? about control? Is it applicable beyond Russian dystopias? This morning I'm listening to Billy Bragg's CD@The Internationale@ which also has Blake's @Jerusalem@ on it. -- all kinds of dystopian and utopian themes. 8bit - tell me, have you heard of Billy Bragg?