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Примечания

1

Derived apparently from the ancient “uniform.”

2

This word has survived only as a poetic metaphor; the chemical composition of this substance is unknown to us.

3

Naturally, his subject was not “Religious Law,” or “God’s Law,” as the ancients called it, but the law of the One State.

4

From the Botanical Museum, of course. Personally, I see nothing beautiful in flowers, or in anything belonging to the primitive world long exiled beyond the Green Wall. Only the rational and useful is beautiful: machines, boots, formulas, food, and so on.

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I must confess that I discovered the true reason for this smile only after many days filled to the brim with the strangest and most unexpected events.

6

This essay, as well as the others quoted here, may be found in A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Chicago University Press, 1970).

7

See The Dragon: 15 Stories by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Chicago University Press, 1976).

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