To literature today the plane surface of daily life is what the earth is to an airplane — a mere runway from which to take off, in order to rise aloft, from daily life to the realities of being, to philosophy, to the fantastic.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

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