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Mr
.
Foster
was
only
too
happy
to
give
them
a
few
figures
.
Two
hundred
and
twenty
metres
long
,
two
hundred
wide
,
ten
high
.
He
pointed
upwards
.
Like
chickens
drinking
,
the
students
lifted
their
eyes
towards
the
distant
ceiling
.
Three
tiers
of
racks
:
ground
floor
level
,
first
gallery
,
second
gallery
.
The
spidery
steel
-
work
of
gallery
above
gallery
faded
away
in
all
directions
into
the
dark
.
Near
them
three
red
ghosts
were
busily
unloading
demijohns
from
a
moving
staircase
.
The
escalator
from
the
Social
Predestination
Room
.
Each
bottle
could
be
placed
on
one
of
fifteen
racks
,
each
rack
,
though
you
couldn
’
t
see
it
,
was
a
conveyor
traveling
at
the
rate
of
thirty
-
three
and
a
third
centimetres
an
hour
.
Two
hundred
and
sixty
-
seven
days
at
eight
metres
a
day
.
Two
thousand
one
hundred
and
thirty
-
six
metres
in
all
.
One
circuit
of
the
cellar
at
ground
level
,
one
on
the
first
gallery
,
half
on
the
second
,
and
on
the
two
hundred
and
sixty
-
seventh
morning
,
daylight
in
the
Decanting
Room
.
Independent
existence
–
so
called
.
"
But
in
the
interval
,
"
Mr
.
Foster
concluded
,
"
we
’
ve
managed
to
do
a
lot
to
them
.
Oh
,
a
very
great
deal
.
"
His
laugh
was
knowing
and
triumphant
.
"
That
’
s
the
spirit
I
like
,
"
said
the
Director
once
more
.
"
Let
’
s
walk
around
.
You
tell
them
everything
,
Mr
.
Foster
.
"
Mr
.
Foster
duly
told
them
.
Told
them
of
the
growing
embryo
on
its
bed
of
peritoneum
.
Made
them
taste
the
rich
blood
surrogate
on
which
it
fed
.
Explained
why
it
had
to
be
stimulated
with
placentin
and
thyroxin
.
Told
them
of
the
corpus
luteum
extract
.
Showed
them
the
jets
through
which
at
every
twelfth
metre
from
zero
to
2040
it
was
automatically
injected
.
Spoke
of
those
gradually
increasing
doses
of
pituitary
administered
during
the
final
ninety
-
six
metres
of
their
course
.
Described
the
artificial
maternal
circulation
installed
in
every
bottle
at
Metre
112
;
showed
them
the
reservoir
of
blood
-
surrogate
,
the
centrifugal
pump
that
kept
the
liquid
moving
over
the
placenta
and
drove
it
through
the
synthetic
lung
and
waste
product
filter
.
