Yeah, my minor is in Russian literature. And I took a class on the '20s, which is kind of the peak of the Russian Revolution, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel ["We"] is the first dystopian book that [George Orwell's]"1984" is directly based on. I think when the revolution was happening, it was a very exciting, tumultuous time, and the world was changing really fast.
I mean, I think it's more like when we recorded in El Paso, like in far West Texas, and it was during the election in November; it's like peak COVID. And just like, you know, crazy, crazy time. We were right next to the border wall; the property we were was like on the Mexican border wall. But at nighttime, we would sort of sit around the fire and this gigantic West Texas sky.
, and kind of just to have this sense of being overwhelmed by how precious this planet is that we have and this time we have together. The cover of Arcade Fire's record"We," featuring the Event Horizon Telescope image of black hole M87*.
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