О дивный новый мир

           Eachbottlecouldbeplacedononeoffifteenracks,eachrack,thoughyoucouldn’tseeit,wasaconveyortravelingattherateofthirty-threeandathirdcentimetresanhour. Twohundredandsixty-sevendaysateightmetresaday. Twothousandonehundredandthirty-sixmetresinall. Onecircuitofthecellaratgroundlevel,oneonthefirstgallery,halfonthesecond,andonthetwohundredandsixty-seventhmorning,daylightintheDecantingRoom. Independentexistence–socalled. 

           "Butintheinterval,"Mr.Fosterconcluded,"we’vemanagedtodoalottothem. Oh,averygreatdeal."Hislaughwasknowingandtriumphant. 

           "That’sthespiritIlike,"saidtheDirectoroncemore. "Let’swalkaround. Youtellthemeverything,Mr.Foster." 

           Mr.Fosterdulytoldthem. 

           Toldthemofthegrowingembryoonitsbedofperitoneum. Madethemtastetherichbloodsurrogateonwhichitfed. Explainedwhyithadtobestimulatedwithplacentinandthyroxin. Toldthemofthecorpusluteumextract. Showedthemthejetsthroughwhichateverytwelfthmetrefromzeroto2040itwasautomaticallyinjected. Spokeofthosegraduallyincreasingdosesofpituitaryadministeredduringthefinalninety-sixmetresoftheircourse. DescribedtheartificialmaternalcirculationinstalledineverybottleatMetre112; showedthemthereservoirofblood-surrogate,thecentrifugalpumpthatkepttheliquidmovingovertheplacentaanddroveitthroughthesyntheticlungandwasteproductfilter.