„Brutality!’ cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. ‘Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.“

— Anthony Burgess

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„This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.“
— Sylvia Plath