Kusaimamekirai’s Reviews > The Same Night Awaits Us All > Status Update

“Suddenly fall has come. Yesterday the first fog settled and now the first September rain is falling. That’s how it’ll be. The days are so long, yet the years fly by. And while you’re wondering when goddamned Wednesday will become Friday, a new year has already begun”.

“So it is. We leave pale shadows of our former selves and are forgotten by the ninth day”

“He didn’t quarrel with them but he also didn’t like the darkness of the ‘us’ vs. ‘them’: he’d seen it in Russia and knew how those things ended. ‘Us and them’ he thought. ‘So they can kill us seperately’. “

“Sheytanov put down a freshly printed copy of Ethics by Kropotkin right next to the gun. ‘One of these will kill a man, and one of these will make him come with you...you can either go it alone or you can inspire someone to come with you. There’s strength in numbers’ “

“So what does it all come out to then, Sheytanov? If you sell your body, we call that being a whore, but when you sell your talent, we call that stardom right?”

“People! Read smart books today, so you won’t have to read banned ones tomorrow!”

“He startled awake, sweating heavily. The sweat beneath his collar stank of fear. He feared nothing when awake, he could always find a way out. But dreams were far from nothing, and he felt helpless once he fell asleep.”

“ ‘That’s what it said in the paper!’. Sheytanov defended himself. ‘Have you ever known a newspaper to lie?’ “
The author, with his story set in the 1920s, having a little fun with the modern reader of ‘fake news’ I suspect.

Jumps around a lot so the chronology is a little difficult to follow. Still interesting so far though