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Author: 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)

By: Valery Bryusov

They resembled wild animals in their ferocity.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (8)

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Anarchy reached its last limits.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (7)

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There commenced a dreadful orgy of the despairing.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (6)

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The sense of property vanished.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (5)

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Some simulated madness in order to escape punishment.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (4)

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They fled in fright to the outskirts of the town.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (3)

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Everyone fled who could.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (2)

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Life was standardised even to the most minute details.

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REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (1)

By: Valery Bryusov

The number of working hours in the day were small in the extreme.

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