Intro to WE

Well, this book is quite tricky to follow along, but I am doing my best!

In WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin had a sound claim to the invention of sciencefiction dystopia.  In the novel, the character D-503 is the voice, and he speaks in equations.  He was unable to finish this novel, because he was wasted away in silence and poverty and he died on March 10, 1937.

In the introduction, he talked about 'dead-alive' and 'alive-alive'.  I thought it was very interesting on how he put that, because it is true on both parts, because the 'dead-alive' people are like machines, they make no mistakes, and they do only produce dead things.  While 'alive-alive' are constantly in error, and machines do not make errors. (most of the time!)

In the first couple Records, it gave a brief introduction of the setting and how things were going about.  D-503 seems like he is very profound of himself.  He stated, "I will just attempt to record what I see, what I think-or, more exactly, what we think".  Well, what I think, he put that very well.  The book is called WE for a reason, and I think he and his friends/people will get together and put their thoughts into something good.  Therefore, on his last statement, 'what WE think'.

I really liked how he talked about different dances.  First the non-free movement, on how you have a dance you have to learn, and also his non-freedom dancing, which you can move/dance to anything you want to.

This story is laying out the basics in the first couple records, and it's getting more complex throughout the rest of the records.  I think something more will happen with D-503 and I-330!  I'm pretty sure O-90 is out of the question for D-503.