The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity — but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. We must compress into a single second what was held before in a sixty-second minute.

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

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