"I am looking at myself, at him, and I am absolutely certain that he, with his ruler-straight eyebrow, is a stranger, somebody else, I just met him for the first time in my life. And I'm the real one. I AM NOT HIM. No. Period. That's all nonsense, all those stupid sensations...they're phantasms, they come from being poisoned yesterday. Poisoned with what , the swallow of green poison, or her?"(Zamyatin 59-60).
The main character D-503 in We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, must face the problem of love throughout the novel. This "love" is not an emotion he can work into his system of equations. In this passage, D-503 sees himself as a human being for the first time. He's never seen himself in this light. He is experiencing the age old realization that love causes. He finds everything new. However, because he knows the feelings are from I-330, he dismisses them. He claims that they are from being "poisoned" . Of course he was not physically poisoning him, but rather poisoning his mind. She is creating ideas in his mind that are causing foggy thought and the inability to funtion normally. She is his poison.
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