[109131] in Cypherpunks
RE: Transparent Society
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Thu Mar 11 09:41:35 1999
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
To: "'Blanc'" <blancw@cnw.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:16:01 -0500
Reply-To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
That 'someone' was I. I'm glad that I got you to read the book,
and reccomend it to others.
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blanc [SMTP:blancw@cnw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 6:57 PM
> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Subject: RE: Transparent Society
>
> Someone here earlier referenced a book called 'We' by Yevgeni Zamyatin
> (written
> in the early '20s), and I read it. This society lives in glass houses,
> always
> visible to each other. The only time they put down the shades is when
> they
> receive conjugal visits, for the time permitted. Not to give away the
> ending,
> but by the end of the story they don't even bother with the shades.
>
> ..
> Blanc
