This activity goes on for two years.Įquality 7-2521 is a freethinker living in a slave state. He also steals manuscripts from the Scholars, and every night he studies. There, hidden beneath the ground, he has three hours in which he does scientific research and performs experiments. Though it is unthinkable, Equality 7-2521 tells International 4-8818 that they will not report the tunnel to the Council rather, it belongs to him.Įach night after that, when his brothers sit in the darkened theatre watching plays about the virtue of toil, Equality 7-2521 steals away to his secret tunnel. He finds an abandoned tunnel, which he immediately realizes is a remnant of the Unmentionable Times, the ancient, evil period prior to the establishment of the current collectivist state. Equality 7-2521, though frightened, descends. When they pull at it, the earth falls in and they find a series of steps leading into the darkness below. One day, as he sweeps the streets with International 4-8818, they find an iron grill buried beneath the weeds and papers blown from the nearby theatre.
He has committed one far worse and does not know what his punishment will be if discovered. It is a sin to do things that do not involve others, and the words he thinks and writes are for no eyes or ears but his. As the story opens, Equality 7-2521 states that it is a sin to do the writing he is doing.
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