Thus the genuinely weird sensibility of D-503, the hero and narrator of We. We is one of the first attempts to write about the future through the consciousness of someone born there and living there. Our hero’s unique, personal Newspeak is a colorful tossed salad of the wildest avant-gardism of the 1920s: Einstein, curved space and the fourth dimension, Marxist dialectic, Freud, free love, math, engineering, aviation, and rocketry. It’s a syncretic, wildly imaginative text that combs the world’s library of innovation, science, and dissent, in order to address the one topic it can never
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