In a Nazi or Communist society such as this, obedience is considered the fundamental virtue. Just like it burned at the stake the Saint of the Pyre for discovering and uttering the Unspeakable Word, so it lashes Equality 7-2521 for his unexplained absence. The glass box is intact, and when he beholds it, he feels that the scars on his back are unimportant.Ī collectivist society is brutally repressive in its treatment of those who think independently. When he lights his candle, he finds everything as he left it. He escapes from the Palace of Corrective Detention and steals quickly into his tunnel. When the members of the Home Council question him regarding his whereabouts, he answers: "We will not tell you." The Council sends him to the Palace of Corrective Detention, commanding that he be lashed until he confesses. When he remembers to look at it, it is too late. On the night he completes his invention, he neglects to watch the hourglass that tells him the time.
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