О дивный новый мир

           Bywhichtimetheoriginaleggwasinafairwaytobecominganythingfromeighttoninety-sixembryos–aprodigiousimprovement,youwillagree,onnature. Identicaltwins–butnotinpiddlingtwosandthreesasintheoldviviparousdays,whenaneggwouldsometimesaccidentallydivide;actuallybydozens,byscoresatatime. 

           "Scores,"theDirectorrepeatedandflungouthisarms,asthoughheweredistributinglargesse."Scores." 

           Butoneofthestudentswasfoolenoughtoaskwheretheadvantagelay. 

           "Mygoodboy! "TheDirectorwheeledsharplyroundonhim. "Can’tyousee? Can’tyousee? "Heraisedahand; hisexpressionwassolemn. "Bokanovsky’sProcessisoneofthemajorinstrumentsofsocialstability!" 

           Majorinstrumentsofsocialstability. 

           Standardmenandwomen; inuniformbatches. Thewholeofasmallfactorystaffedwiththeproductsofasinglebokanovskifiedegg. 

           "Ninety-sixidenticaltwinsworkingninety-sixidenticalmachines!" Thevoicewasalmosttremulouswithenthusiasm. "Youreallyknowwhereyouare.Forthefirsttimeinhistory."Hequotedtheplanetarymotto."Community,Identity,Stability."Grandwords. "Ifwecouldbokanovskifyindefinitelythewholeproblemwouldbesolved." 

           SolvedbystandardGammas,unvaryingDeltas,uniformEpsilons. Millionsofidenticaltwins. Theprincipleofmassproductionatlastappliedtobiology. 

           "But,alas,"theDirectorshookhishead,"wecan’tbokanovskifyindefinitely." 

           Ninety-sixseemedtobethelimit; seventy-twoagoodaverage.