THE DAYS SHALL COME OF FINAL DESOLATION
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“Fine edifices shall be dimmed by ivy, / Grass weave a carpet over every stone…”
Read This PostAuthor: Valery Bryusov
Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), a Russian Symbolist poet and litterateur, anticipated giant domed computerized cities, ecological catastrophe, and a totalitarian state in his 1907 story collection Zemnaya Os (Earth's Axis), pub. in English as The Republic of the Southern Cross (1918, translator unknown).
REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (9)
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They resembled wild animals in their ferocity.
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There commenced a dreadful orgy of the despairing.
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Some simulated madness in order to escape punishment.
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They fled in fright to the outskirts of the town.
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Life was standardised even to the most minute details.
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The number of working hours in the day were small in the extreme.
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