“Leninism is Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. More precisely: Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
But, Sire… Shut up, you fool! Not another word! You do not contradict the thoughts of Comrade Stalin. They would proclaim you to be a nihilist immediately. As far as I can tell, you would end up way up in the north, digging channels where no boats will ever sail, if you hadn’t had the luck to die. What’s a nihilist, Sire? You scoundrel, if you hadn’t fallen asleep writing down my program for the development of history from the destruction of the Tower of Babylon to its rebuilding, if you hadn’t been scribbling your footnotes that have since disappeared in the past anyway, you would remember my words, my fears that I am the forerunner of nihilism. Anyway, who knows? Maybe I am. Mea culpa. Look, please, Grossman; look at those radiant faces, those processions. They all believe that they will die, that they will die completely, not like this, like you and I, that they will become nothing, and still they are laughing and singing. Isn’t that funny? That’s horrible, your majesty. No, it’s ridiculous. Even though I’ve been dead for so many centuries, I am an undying optimist. The final tower, the one that will perfect evil, that will classify it and separate it completely from good, it is already being slowly planned. We are cooperating with God. Go to sleep now, Grossman. Don’t pretend to be sleeping. There’s nothing else for you to hear. I won’t wake you any more before the trumpets of Jericho sound, and they will be loud enough, I promise you, that they will awaken you and bring you before the Almighty so that you can show him the despicable contents of your secretarial soul. Sleep! Yes, Sire, I’m slowly falling asleep, slowly… falling… asleep…
Grossman has fallen asleep. I can see that from the absence of his presence. Although I’m not tired, I will soon go to sleep as well. But before I close my eyes, as a result of the general concretization turned into two pages of some sort of book, I will turn back one more time to look at this brave new world. That danse macabre. That circle without end. Circus vitiosus.
APPENDIX
MIHAILO JOVANOVIĆ, ARCH.
BUILDING: “CITY BABYLON THE GREAT” HOSPITAL — TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Location
— The “City Babylon the Great” Hospital to be built with special permits on the basis of geodetic (geo-climatic, geo-morphological), climatic, and historical analysis.
Structure
— The entire building is a spiral; all of its ramps rest on the earth (dug in). This will also form the spiral foundation. Interior construction is of steel and cement. Above ground part of building covered with spatial screen, filled with glass.
Vertical walls are of steel and concrete with all insulation (hydro-, thermal, sound). Routes for all installations are run through these walls.
Energy
For lighting, climate control and manufacturing energy, two sources are used:
A — solar energy; daytime lighting and heating on the hothouse principle.
B — Heat energy of the Earth’s core that is absorbed on the floors below 2 miles underground, and can be raised to the level needed when required.
Function and architectural solution
The system of communication facilitates basic functioning, built so that it allows the connection of all levels and sections within the framework of the same level by means of three ways of communicating:
Vertical — elevators.
Horizontal — conveyer belts.
Slanted — along the spiral foundation.
All seven entrances are connected to the central part with selective security. In the NEUROSIS quarter from which elevators go to the base of the spiral with stops and connections at every level. In addition, the central part of the NEUROSIS quarter is connected directly with seven vertical communication systems for each level.
Surfacing
— All interior surfaces to be painted gray. (Shade to be determined by hospital manager.)
— Steel construction to be painted with primer, surface painted also in grey. Flat enamel.
— Steel on the spatial screens not to be painted but polished to a high gloss.
Exterior surfaces
High-tension steel reinforced walls — not to be painted. Entrances (all 7) painted with traffic colors: orange, yellow and black.
In front of entrance 4, place gigantic monument II PSYCHOANALYSIS. Open supplemental competition for monument design.
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