Realism that is not primitive, not realia but realiora, consists in displacement, distortion, curvature, non-objectivity. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

Realism that is not primitive, not realia but realiora, consists in displacement, distortion, curvature, non-objectivity.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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