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“This is unthinkable. It's stupid! Can't you see what you're plotting is . . . revolution?”
“Yes – revolution! Why is that stupid?”
“Stupid – because there can't be a revolution. Because our – this is me talking, not you - our revolution was the final one. And there cannot be any further revolutions of any kind. Everybody knows that . . .”
Her brows make a sharp mocking triangle: “My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me. Tell me the final number.”
“That what? I . . . don't understand. What final number?”
“You know – the last one, the top, the absolute biggest.”
“But, I-330, that's stupid. Since the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final one?”
“And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. The last one – that's for children . . . Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children.”
-Yevgeny Zamyatin. We

 

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