“It’s always the same. It’s been the same for as long as I can remember, all these rules – these regulations. Everyone just gets up, goes to work and sleep, and for what? ‘All for the good of our triumphant nation.’ I am Civilian 9823457. I used to have a name, but that was taken away along with everything else. Music, games, sport – anything fun was torn down as part of the ‘Liberating Efficiency Revolution.’ Naturally there was a resistance; people weren’t going to take it lying down. They were all killed. My mother included. I only know all this from my dad. He’ll tell me stories, stories of the past – before the ‘machine’ took over and when there was nature all around, where things would grow.”
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