Anthem Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter One

• It is a sin to write.
• It is a sin to think words that no one else thinks.
• It is a sin to put thoughts onto paper for no one else to see
• Transgression is blacker than to do or think alone.
• Men may not write unless the Council of Vocations allows it.
• A greater crime has been committed for which there is no name.
• The punishment is unknown if the crime is discovered.
• The narrator is alone in a tunnel underground.
• It is transgression and the root of all evil to be alone.
• The narrator has broken many laws.
• The narrator stole a candle from the larder of the Home of the Street Sweepers.
• The narrator will be sentenced to ten years in the Palace of Corrective Detention if discovered.
• The narrator's name is Equality 7-2521.
• All men wear iron bracelets with their names on their left wrists.
• The narrator is twenty-one years old and six feet tall, taller than most men.
• Teachers and Leaders frown and say there is evil in a tall man's bones.
• The narrator was born with a curse to have forbidden thoughts and wishes.
• The narrator knows that he is evil, with no will to resist.
• All men must be alike.
• The words over the portals of the Palace of the World Council are repeated by all when tempted: "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever."
• It is forbidden to speak of the times before the Great Rebirth.
• Old Ones whisper of the towers that rose to the sky during the Unmentionable Times, when wagons moved without horses and lights burned without flame.
• The Great Truth is that all men are one, with no will save the will of all men together.
• Equality 7-2521 believes he was born with a curse.
• The narrator lived in the Home of the Infants until he was five years old, together with all the children of the City born in the same year.
• The sleeping halls were white, clean, and bare, save for one hundred beds.
• The narrator fought with his brothers, which is a great offense.
• Council of the Home told Equality 7-2521 that he was locked in the cellar most often.
• When Equality 7-2521 was five years old, he was sent to the Home of the Students for ten years of learning.
• Men must learn until they reach their fifteenth year, and then they go to work.
• At the Home of the Students, Equality 7-2521 and his brothers would stand with the three Teachers, raise their arms, and say: "We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen."
• Equality 7-2521 was not happy at the Home of the Students because learning was too easy.
• It is a great sin to be born with a quick mind; it is evil to be superior to brothers.
• Equality 7-2521 tried to forget lessons and not understand what the Teachers taught, but he always remembered and understood.
• Equality 7-2521 looked upon Union 5-3992, a pale boy with only half a brain, and tried to be like him, but the Teachers knew he was not.
• Equality 7-2521 was lashed more often than the other children.
• The Teachers are appointed by the Councils, who are the voice of all justice and men.
• Equality 7-2521 regrets what befell him on his fifteenth birthday because he broke a law and did not heed the words of the Teachers.
• Equality 7-2521 remembers the Teachers saying to all the students: "Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you... And if you are not needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies."
• Equality 7-2521 was guilty of the Transgression of Preference.
• Equality 7-2521 preferred some work and lessons to others.
• Equality 7-2521 loved the Science of Things and wished to know.
• The Council of Scholars says that there are no mysteries.
• Equality 7-2521 learned from the Teachers that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
• Modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as candles from wax and string and glass.
• Scholars study the earth and learn from the rivers, sands, winds, and rocks.
• Equality 7-2521 could ask questions at the Home of Scholars because questions are not forbidden there.
• Equality 7-2521's curse makes him seek something and he asks "why?" with no answer.
• Equality 7-2521 wanted to be sent to the Home of Scholars, so much so that his hands trembled and he bit his arm because men may wish nothing for themselves.
• Equality 7-2521 was punished when the Council of Vocations came to give life Mandates.
• The Council of Vocations came on the first day of spring and called the Students' names, and would decree: "Carpenter" or "Doctor" or "Cook" or "Leader."
• If the Council said "Carpenter" or "Cook," the Students would go to work and not study.
• If the Council said "Leader," the Students would go to the Home of the Leaders, which is the greatest house in the City, and study for many years to become candidates and be elected to the City Council, the State Council, and the World Council.
• Equality 7-2521 wished to be a Scholar, not a Leader.
• The Council of Vocations called Equality 7-2521 and decreed "Street Sweeper."
• The Council had five members, three male and two female, old and cracked as dry clay.
• The lips of the oldest member of the Council did not move when he said "Street Sweeper."
• Equality 7-2521 was happy because he had a way to atone for his guilt; he would work gladly for his brothers and erase his sin against them.
• Equality 7-2521 raised his arm and said: "The will of our brothers be done."
• Equality 7-2521 looked straight into the eyes of the Council, but their eyes were as cold as blue glass buttons.
• The Home of the Street Sweepers is a grey house on a narrow street and the time is told by the sundial in the courtyard.
• The shadow on the sundial marks off a half-hour while the street sweepers dress and eat breakfast in the dining hall, where there are five long tables with twenty clay plates and twenty clay cups on each table.
• Then the street sweepers go to work with their brooms and rakes.
• In five hours, they return to the Home for their midday meal for one-half hour.
• Then they go to work again for five hours until the shadows are blue on the pavements.
• The street sweepers have dinner for one hour, then go to the City Halls for the Social Meeting.
• Other columns of men arrive from the Homes of the different Trades.
• The candles are lit and the Councils of the different Homes stand in a pulpit and speak of duty to brother men.
• Visiting Leaders mount the pulpit and read speeches made in the City Council, because the City Council represents all men and all men must know.
• Members sing hymns, the Hymn of Brotherhood, the Hymn of Equality, and the Hymn of the Collective Spirit.
• The street sweepers go to the City Theatre for three hours of Social Recreation, with plays about toil and how good it is.
• All men must live this life until they are forty, when they are sent to the Home of the Useless.
• The Old Ones live in the Home of the Useless, where the State takes care of them.
• When a miracle happens and some live to be forty-five, they are the Ancient Ones.
• Equality 7-2521 committed a crime because of a curse.
• Equality 7-2521 looked too long at the stars at night, and at the trees and the earth, and when he cleaned the yard of the Home of the Scholars, he gathered glass vials, pieces of metal, and dried bones which they had discarded.
• Equality 7-2521 carried the discarded items to the City Cesspool to hide them.
• The crime of Equality 7-2521 was discovered in the spring before last.
• Street Sweepers work in brigades of three, and Equality 7-2521 worked with Union 5-3992, who has half a brain, and International 4-8818.
• Union 5-3992 suffered from convulsions; International 4-8818 is tall and strong with laughter in his eyes.
• International 4-8818 was not liked at the Home of the Students because he smiled without reason and drew pictures, so he was sent to the Home of the Street Sweepers.
• Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 are friends, a transgression of preference.
• Union 5-3992 suffered convulsions near the City Theatre, so Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 went to the ravine behind the theater to finish their work gathering papers.
• Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 saw an iron bar among the weeds and scraped the earth around it, finding an old iron grill over a black hole.
• International 4-8818 stepped back because it is forbidden to enter the hole, because the Council does not know of it and there is no law permitting it.
• Equality 7-2521 said, "We shall go, none the less," and hung on the iron rings with his hands and feet into the darkness, finding a great tunnel built by men with smooth walls and long, thin tracks of iron.
• Equality 7-2521 knew the place was left from the Unmentionable Times and they knew the secrets we have lost.
• Equality 7-2521's hand clung to the iron track, thirsty for its secret fluid.
• International 4-8818 looked upon Equality 7-2521 and said, "your face is white," and backed away.
• International 4-8818 smiled and said, "We shall report our find to the City Council and both of us will be rewarded."
• Equality 7-2521 said, "We shall not report our find to the City Council. We shall not report it to any men."
• Equality 7-2521 asked International 4-8818, "will you report us to the Council and see us lashed to death before your eyes?"
• They answered, "Rather would we die."
• Equality 7-2521 said, then keep silent. This place is ours, and if we surrender it, we surrender our life with it also.
• International 4-8818 was full of tears and whispered that the Council is above all things, but they would obey and be evil with equality 7-2521 rather than good with their brothers, and asked that the Council have mercy upon their hearts.
• Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 walked away together in silence.
• Each night, Equality 7-2521 steals out of the City Theatre and runs to his place in the ravine to remove the stones from the iron grill to be under the earth alone for three hours. Candles, flints and knives have been stolen from the Home of the Street Sweepers and glass vials and powders and acids have been stolen from the Home of the Scholars.
• Strange metals are melted and acids mixed and the bodies of animals found in the City Cesspool are cut open and studied in an oven built of bricks gathered in the streets.
• Equality 7-2521 has stolen manuscripts, a great offense, which take a year to copy in handwriting and are kept in the Home of the Scholars.
• Equality 7-2521 has learned things which are not in the scripts and solved secrets of which the Scholars have no knowledge. Equality 7-2521 wishes to be alone and learn.
• Equality 7-2521 is false in the faces of his brothers and defies the will of the Councils for no purpose save that he wishes to do it.
• There is no shame and no regret, but also no burden upon his spirit and no fear in his heart.
• Equality 7-2521 says to himself that he is a wretch and traitor, but feels first peace in twenty years.

Chapter Two

• Equality 7-2521 wishes to write and speak the name Liberty 5-3000, but dares not because men are forbidden to notice women and vice versa.
• Women assigned to work the soil live in the Homes of the Peasants beyond the City.
• Street Sweepers must keep the road to the first milepost clean.
• Beyond the hedge are the fields where women work, their tunics like the wings of sea-gulls beating over the black soil.
• Liberty 5-3000's body was straight and thin as a blade of iron; their eyes were dark, hard, and glowing with no fear, kindness, or guilt; their hair was golden as the sun, wild as if it defied men to restrain it.
• Liberty 5-3000 threw seeds as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet.
• Equality 7-2521 stood still, knowing fear and pain for the first time, that he might not spill this pain more precious than pleasure.
• The others called Liberty 5-3000 and they turned and walked back, till their white tunic was lost in the blue mist.
• Each day Equality 7-2521 waited for their hour on the northern road and looked at Liberty 5-3000.
• One day Liberty 5-3000 came close to the hedge, and turned to Equality 7-2521 abruptly, standing still as a stone with no smile, but their face was taut and their eyes were dark, then they walked away.
• The following day, Liberty 5-3000 smiled to Equality 7-2521 and their head fell back and arms fell, as if stricken with lassitude, then they glanced over their shoulder.
• Every morning thereafter, Equality 7-2521 greeted Liberty 5-3000 with a look, because it is a transgression to speak to men of other Trades.
• Once, Equality 7-2521 raised a hand to his forehead and moved it slowly, palm down, toward Liberty 5-3000, shading his eyes from the sun. She understood and did the same.
• Equality 7-2521 calls Liberty 5-3000 the Golden One.
• It is a sin to distinguish men from other men.
• Each spring, men older than twenty and women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating, assigned by the Council of Eugenics. Children born each winter never know their parents.
• Equality 7-2521 spoke to the Golden One, breaking another law.
• The Golden One knelt alone at the moat and the drops of water on their lips were like sparks of fire.
• The Golden One rose and walked to the hedge at Equality 7-2521's command, their lashes shadowed on their white cheeks.
• Equality 7-2521 said: "You are beautiful, Liberty 5-3000."
• Their face did not move, but their eyes grew wider with triumph.
• The Golden One asked: "What is your name?"
• Equality 7-2521 answered.
• The Golden One said, "You are not one of our brothers... for we do not wish you to be."
• Equality 7-2521 cannot say what they meant.
• The Golden One asked, "If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us?"
• Equality 7-2521 answered.
• The Golden One asked: "Are Street Sweepers sent to different parts of the City or do they always work in the same places?"
• Equality 7-2521 answered.
• The Golden One said, "Your eyes are not like the eyes of any among men."
• Equality 7-2521 suddenly felt cold when the Golden One asked: "How old are you?"
• The Golden One whispered "Seventeen," and Equality 7-2521 sighed, thinking of the Palace of Mating and deciding he would not let the Golden One be sent there.
• Equality 7-2521 suddenly hated all his brother men, and the Golden One saw it and smiled sadly.
• The Golden One walked away, trembling, and three of the sisters in the field appeared.
• Equality 7-2521 was reprimanded for singing in the dining hall, which is not proper save at Social Meetings.
• Equality 7-2521 said, "We are singing because we are happy," and the Council said, "Indeed you are happy... How else can men be when they live for their brothers?"
• There is fear hanging in the air, and all men feel it and none dare to speak.
• Equality 7-2521 feels no longer afraid in the pure air, under the ground, for three hours.
• Equality 7-2521's body is betraying him for feeling too much joy and being glad that he lives.
• Fraternity 2-5503 cries and sobs, and Solidarity 9-6347 screams in his sleep, but the Doctors cannot cure them.
• All must agree with all, and they fear to speak.
• Equality 7-2521 looks upon the peaceful sky and the Uncharted Forest.
• Men never enter the Uncharted Forest, for there is no power to explore it and no path to its fearful secrets.
• It is whispered that once or twice in a hundred years, one among the men of the City escapes alone and runs to the Uncharted Forest, and does not return, perishing from hunger and wild beasts. The Councils say this is only a legend.
• There are many Uncharted Forests over the land, among the Cities, which have grown over the ruins of many cities of the Unmentionable Times.
• Equality 7-2521 thinks of the secrets of the Unmentionable Times and how they were lost.
• The Evil Ones were conquered and burned in great fires.
• May the Council have mercy upon us!
• There is some word, one single Unspeakable Word which is not in the language of men, but which has been.
• The crime of speaking the Unspeakable Word is punished by death.
• Equality 7-2521 saw a Transgressor burned alive in the square of the City.
• The Transgressor had golden hair and blue eyes and did not falter. Of all the faces, theirs was the calmest and happiest.
• The Transgressor smiled with blood running from the corner of their mouth and seemed to choose Equality 7-2521 from the crowd, trying to send him some word without sound.
• What even if we have to burn for it like the Saint of the pyre—what is the Unspeakable Word?

Chapter Three

• Equality 7-2521 has discovered a new power of nature alone.
• The Council of Scholars says that all know the things which exist and therefore all the things which are not known by all do not exist, but Equality 7-2521 thinks they are blind.
• The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
• Equality 7-2521 does not know what this power is nor whence it comes.
• Two years ago, Equality 7-2521 cut open a dead frog and saw its leg jerking because the frog had been hanging on a wire of copper and the metal of the knife had sent a strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
• Equality 7-2521 touched a wire to a piece of copper and a piece of zinc into a jar of brine, creating a new miracle and a new power.
• Equality 7-2521 followed this discovery in preference to all his studies and found the greatest power on earth.
• The new metal power defies all the laws known to men, making the needle move on the compass and causing lightning.
• Equality 7-2521 built strange things and copper wires that he have found here under the ground.
• Equality 7-2521 has walked the length of the tunnel, half a mile, and gathered strange boxes with metal bars, cords, and strands and wires that led to little globes of glass containing threads of metal.
• Equality 7-2521 does not understand these objects but thinks that the men of the Unmentionable Times had known our power of the sky.
• Equality 7-2521 cannot stop now, even though it frightens him that he is alone in his knowledge.
• No single one can possess greater wisdom than the many Scholars. Yet Equality 7-2521 can and does.
• Equality 7-2521 forgets all men, all laws and all things save our metals and our wires.

Chapter Four

• Many days passed before Equality 7-2521 could speak to the Golden One again, at the hedge with white dust.
• Equality 7-2521 said: "We have given you a name in our thoughts, Liberty 5-3000."
• The Golden One asked, "What is our name?"
• Equality 7-2521 answered: "The Golden One."
• The Golden One asked, "Nor do we call you Equality 7-2521 when we think of you," and asked "What name have you given us?"
• They answered: "The Unconquered."
• Equality 7-2521 said: "Such thoughts are forbidden, Golden One."
• The Golden One said, "But you think such thoughts as these and you wish us to think them."
• Equality 7-2521 whispered, "Yes," and they smiled, and then he said: "Our dearest one, do not obey us."
• They stepped back, and their eyes were wide and still.
• "Speak those words again," they whispered.
• "Which words?" Equality 7-2521 asked. But they did not answer, and they knew it.
• "Our dearest one," Equality 7-2521 whispered, it has never been said to women before
• The head of the Golden One bowed and stood still, delivered in submission.
• The day is hot, and you have worked for many hours and you must be weary.
• It is cooler in the fields with water to drink.
• Yes, but we cannot cross the hedge.
• We shall bring the water to you.
• They knelt by the moat, gathered water in their two hands, rose and held it to our lips.
• They held the water out, but Equality 7-2521 stepped back, not understanding.
• The Golden One stepped back, looking at their hands in wonder, and walked away.

Chapter Five

• Equality 7-2521 made and created a box of glass from the remains of the Unmentionable Times to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than ever achieved before. When wires were put to this box, the wire glowed.
• Equality 7-2521 can light the tunnel, the City, and all the Cities of the world with metal and wires and give brothers a new light, cleaner and brighter than any they have ever known.
• Equality 7-2521 must to bring his great discovery into the sight of all men and receive the help of his brother Scholars and their wisdom.
• In a month, the World Council of Scholars is to meet in their City.
• Equality 7-2521 shall confess everything to them so he can be assigned to the Home of the Scholars.
• If men save the Scholars learn of this secret, they would not understand it nor believe, they would destroy equality 7-2521 and his light.
• For the first time, Equality 7-2521 cares about his body, for the first time knows the strength of his arms, and wonders what he looks like.

Chapter Six

• Equality 7-2521 had not written for thirty days because he had been caught on that night he wrote last. He did not watch the sand in the glass and returned later than expected to the City Theatre.
• Equality 7-2521 walked to the Home of the Street Sweepers.
• The Council of the Home did not express curiosity, anger, or mercy, and when the oldest asked where he had been, Equality 7-2521 answered, "We will not tell you."
• The Council ordered equality 7-2521 to be taken to the Palace of Corrective Detention and lashed; the room was empty save for an iron post.
• Two men tore clothes from his body and beat him, but equality 7-2521 did not cry out; he did not betray the light.
• For many days Equality 7-2521 lay in his cell, shaking his head when the Judges asked if he was ready to speak.
• Equality 7-2521 knew that he must escape because tomorrow the World Council of Scholars is to meet in the City and he lunged against the door and it gave way.

Chapter Seven

• It is dark in the forest.
• Leaves rustle overhead and the moss is soft and warm.
• Equality 7-2521 is old yet young.
• Glass box carried through the streets of the City to the Home of the Scholars - no men stopped or knew Equality 7-2521 and the meeting was in session.
• Equality 7-2521 saw nothing except the blue and glowing sky.
• The Scholars were as shapeless clouds at the rise of a great sky.
• All the heads of the Council turned to Equality 7-2521.
• They looked on Equality 7-2521 with wonder and curiosity, as if Equality 7-2521 were a miracle.
• Collective 0-0009, the oldest and wisest of the Council spoke and asked: "Who are you, our brother? For you do not look like a Scholar."
• “Equality 7-2521,” was answered. “and we are a Street Sweeper of this City.”
• They spoke at once and they were angry and frightened.
• Equality 7-2521 said, Give no thought, and “ listen to our words, for we bring you a gift such as has never been brought to men. Listen to us, for we hold the future of mankind in our hands.”
• We placed our glass box on the table. And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire. And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood, a red flame trembled in the wire.
• The wire glowed and terror struck the men of the Council.
• Equality 7-2521 laughed and said:"Fear nothing, our brothers. There is a great power in these wires, but this power is tamed. It is yours. We give it to you.”
• “We give you the power of the sky! We give you the key to the earth! Take it, and let us be one of you, the humblest among you. Let us work together, and harness this power, and make it ease the toil of men. Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood our cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men!”
• They looked upon Equality 7-2521.
• Collective 0-0009 moved forward.
• “Yes,” spoke Collective 0-0009, “we have much to say to you.”
• “Yes,” said Collective 0-0009, “we have much to say to a wretch who have broken all the laws and who boast of their infamy! How dared you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the minds of your brothers? And if the Council had decreed that you be a Street Sweeper, how dared you think that you could be of greater use to men than in sweeping the streets?”
• Fraternity 9-3452 spoke of gutter cleaner holding himself alone instead of with thoughts of many.
• Democracy 4-6998 said. “You shall be burned at the stake,”
• Unanimity 7-3304. “No, they shall be lashed,” said . “till there is nothing left under the lashes.”
• Collective 0-0009 "We cannot decide, and say they must deliver the creature instead to the World Council itself and let their will be done."
• They didn't care of their body or the light.
• Collective 0-0009 looked and smiled: "So you think you have found a new power...Do you think all your brothers think that?"
• Equality 7-2521 answered, "No."
• Collective 0-0009. said “”What is not thought by all men cannot be true.
• International 1-5537 asked and “You have worked on this alone?””
• International 1-5537 also said: "What is not done collectively cannot be good,"
• Solidarity 8-1164 “But the majority of their brother Scholars voted against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must."
• Alliance 6-7349 said that this box is useless.
• Harmony 9-2642 said it was ruin for the candle department.
• 2-9913, Wreck the plans , and we cannot alter Plans so soon.
• The sun cannot rise.
• 5-0306 toil.
• Collective 0-0009 this thing must be destroyed, by all the others..
• We leapt to the table, seized our box, shoved them aside, and we ran to the window.
• Equality 7-2521 cried "You thrice-damned fools! - Equality 7-2521 ran blindly, through houses with a torrent shape,
• Equality 7-2521 knew what it would take to ruin that world and what world it would take to stop Equality 7-2521
• When equality 7-2521 knew that suddenly they were lying on soft earth. They were in the Uncharted Forest. Equality 7-2521 was with the body they carried here, as the wisdom will. - But with Equality 7-2521 was the loss to not follow them as to fear with them.

Chapter Eight

• This is the first day of sunlight, and the ability to feel free.
• Equality 7-2521 felt the leaves with edges of silver.
• Laughter and thought of rise, run, leap, or fall down again was all thought without sense
• But the hands had seize a branch and had been swung high, and it was learning the strength of the body. A branch had snapped under and it was moss with an end in it.
• We went on without song or body
• The taste of food by our own hands was new pride with eating
• Equality 7-2521 saw a new face for the first time and in that moment it no longer could be with the others
• The forest was no longer there, and Equality 7-2521 was no longer the damned

Chapter Nine

• Equality 7-2521 and the Golden one touch lips, and in that moment they would share in damnnation "We have followed you." : We had never thought of that which we did. We bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their body and we pressed our lips to theirs. The Golden One breathed once, and their breath was a moan, and then their arms closed around us.
• And we were frightened and had never known what would be, the possibility to men. “'Look ahead, The world we shall face is our own.'”
• That to hold a woman in our arms, neither shame nor ugly, this one ecstasy granted. “'Each day we can do what we like. '”. - We have made a bow and many arrows. At night we sleep and we can protect ourselves with that ring of fire. Damned! And how we laughed

Chapter Ten

• The light that is dim, cannot see the Golden One, but in light of love, with the end with the only pillow from an ancient bed. This is our home
• We climbed paths where the wild goat dared not follow. Stones rolled from under our feet, and we heard them striking the rocks below, farther and farther down, and the mountains rang with each stroke, and long after the strokes had died. But we went on, for we knew that no men would ever follow our track nor reach us here. , at sunrise, we saw a white flame among the trees, high on a sheer peak before us.
• The house had two stories and a strange roof flat as a floor. There was more window than wall upon its walls, and the windows went on straight around corners, though how this house kept standing we could not guess. The walls were hard and smooth, of that stone unlike stone which we had seen in our tunnel.
• They had come to this house for the unmentionable times

Chapter Eleven

• I am. I think. I will.
• This miracle and this freedom is here to stay.

Chapter Twelve

It was when I read the first of the books I found in my house that I saw the word "I." And when I understood this word, the book fell from my hands, and I wept, I who had never known tears. I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.

• Then I called the Golden One, and I told her what I had read and what I had learned. She looked at me and the first words she spoke were: “'I love you'"

• I have learned that the power of the sky was known to men long ago; they called it Electricity. It was the power that moved their greatest inventions. It lit this house with light that came from those globes of glass on the walls. I have found the engine which produced this light. I shall learn how to repair it and how to make it work again. I shall learn how to use the wires which carry this power.

• Gaea is pregnant with my child. He will be taught to say "I" and to bear the pride of it. He will be taught to walk straight on his own feet. He will be taught reverence for his own spirit.

• The last thing and a new history begins

• The worship of the word shall cease. And only then is this all for everyone.