Mollie Hemingway

Everything had become even for illicit sexual relations.

But that they closed the curtains I find so interesting and how so often now you go into a work environment and there used to be these offices with actual doors you could close and now everything is glass.

Yeah, and it's probably a natural result of this.

I mean, partly it's lighting, partly it's to make things feel more open, and partly it's because they want to make sure nobody's doing anything inappropriate.

Because zones of privacy are actually important.

Like moments of solitude are important for people to develop their thoughts, to develop relationships, and shows how sin or violations of proper norms can ruin things for everybody.

So, you know, it has a very dark ending, as you already said.

He gets his lobotomy, and he feels much better that he doesn't have this wild imagination.

He betrays everybody in the resistance movement, and his former lover is killed.

And it's a very sad ending in one way, and then also there's that hopeful ending, particularly related to 090 and her pregnancy.

So he starts to feel weird feelings of even...

care for her, which he'd never really felt.

And she desperately wants to be able to stay united to her child, which would not be allowed if she stays within the walls.

And so he helps her escape to this outside zone that is so free and natural that the humans have begun to grow hair on their bodies.

That's how

free and outside of state control they are, which is kind of weird and funny.

But there's a hopefulness about it, that there is this future, that the state has been breached, that the wall has been breached, that they will not be able to completely control and terrorize their people through this authoritarian system.

And so it's dark,

but with a glimmer of hope.

So I don't actually think it was 99% of people.