A 1946 review of this novel highlights a scene in which the protagonist is challenged to name the “last number” by a woman with an “X-like” demeanor. During this novel’s writing, its author noted, “True literature” is created by “madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics” in the essay “I Am Afraid.” This novel’s “hairy-pawed” protagonist hears of a “wild man” who tampers with a barometer to try to produce rain. After he is diagnosed with a sickness of “imagination,” this novel’s protagonist undergoes the Great Operation. In this novel, MEPHI (“meffy”) aims to topple the Green Wall surrounding a city led by the Benefactor. Journal entries in this novel detail the building of the spaceship INTEGRAL by the all-glass One State, led by D-503. For 10 points, 1984 and Brave New World were modeled on what dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin? ■END■
ANSWER: We [or My (“mih”)] (The review from the lead-in is “Freedom and Happiness” by George Orwell.)
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