Happy birthday, Yevgeny Zamyatin!

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to the father of modern dystopian fiction, Yevgeny Zamyatin (1 February, 1884 – 10 March, 1937)!



“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this 'once in a thousand years' has come today.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924)



Happy birthday also to time_shark, and happy early birthday to alitalf, mayree, infostudent, akaihyo, vonjunzt, wiredwizard, moglaikhan, griffith_gwyn, mr_earbrass, mollypunkin, cookiefleck, firiath, nihilistic_kid, alicia_stardust, ankh_hpl, dqg_neal, xerum525, homespunheart, jagash, settiai, rosamundeb, and kalquessa. May you enjoy many happy returns of the day, my friends!

Comments

[alicia-stardust.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! :D

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

*hugs* :)

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! :) Your icon is fabulous.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

That's totally appropriate music for thinking about dystopia. It's one of the cornerstones of my political playlist.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

It's a classic for a reason, isn't it? ;)

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

And like all classics, it continues to be applicable. I often think of it in connection with the current administration.

[settiai]

Thank you!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

*hugs*