REJOICE!

The location of the Centre of Fantasy is the latest discovery of science in The One State. This Centre is a miserable little cerebral node in the region of the Bridge of Varoli. A triple cauterization of this node with X-rays, and you are cured of Fantasy -

PERMANENTLY!

You are perfect; you are on a par with machines, the road to one hundred percent happiness lies clear ahead. hasten, then, all of you, young and old - hasten to submit yourselves to the Grand Operation!

Zamyatin / We

the Big Picture

Short Eyes, known as See, and the House Dick, known as Prick, are unofficial operatives of Special Operations. Prick is a burly ex-policeman with a cop's florid face and a cop's mean, angry eyes. They are rarely used against enemy agents, but rather against civilian targets: writers, artists, filmakers, intellectuals, inventors and researchers who are considered a danger to the Big Picture.

Big Picture involves escape from the planet by a chosen few… After that, an extermination program will be activated. needless to say, Big Picture is a highly sensitive project. Even to suspect the existence of Big Picture is unwholesome. As the poet says: 'After such knowledge, what forgiveness?"

burroughs / The Western Lands/ 51

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Wu Ming We are all February of 1917