Understanding is strictly forbidden. Even dreams have the right to dream.

Muscovites see clearly but write muddily; the eye grasps but the fingers splay.

I looked up. From the pediment of an old brick church, a gigantic eye painted into a triangle was staring straight at me through the mist.

Quantin crept closer to the knoll. A pungent smell passed through his nostrils up into his brain. Attracted by the poppies' scarlet smears, he was about to take another step when he felt a hand on his elbow. A man in a poppy-red jacket, his pupils dilated, smiled warningly. "No strangers allowed. Go away." "I don't understand..." "Understanding is strictly forbidden. Even dreams have the right to dream. Isn't that so? Now go away.

Он понимал все сказанные ему слова и не понимал смысла: как может меньшее заступить дорогу большему, как может их маленькая революция помешать его великой, которую он несет меж своих висков, которая над всем над; что они могут, люди, развесившие флаги, кроме как отмстить трем-четырем столетиям и выкликать грядущее - только выкликать? А он - его машина - бросит человечество через века и века вперед.

A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People thronging the doorways of shops tried to pummel their way through and stuck fast, their faces flushed with spite and fury, their teeth bared.

ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ ВЛАСТЬ СОВЕТОВ! ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ ГИБЕЛЬ КАПИТАЛИЗМА!

Glory to the unwakeable.

When the Thinker placed a clean sheet of paper before the Thought, it jumped back: "I won't be put into letters!" But the old man went about his business. The struggle was brief, albeit hard-fought.

But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to live. And if the war managed only to separate the living from the dead, then the new regime, arriving in its wake, would sooner or later pit them against each other as enemies.