-everyone is busy
working in the lab
-they are
separating the embryos
-"the
newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement"
-its feeding time
for 800 babies
-babies are
drinking" pasteurized external secretion"
-little boys and
girls are listening to hypnopædic lessons in hygiene and sociability, in
classconsciousness and the toddler's love-life
-that room
contains more high-caste workers than any other in the Centre
-they talk about
making as many as they like
-Bernard enters
the room
-when he first
speaks he's too loud so he softens his tone
-the Director
asked Mr Marx (Bernard) to meet him there
-"Yes-s,"
repeated the Director, lingering, a serpent, on the "s." Then,
suddenly raising
his voice, "Ladies and gentlemen," he trumpeted, "ladies and
gentlemen."
-he silenced the
room
-the director says
Bernard has betrayed them
-Bernard is an Alpha-Plus
-the Director announces he will become an ex-colleague
-“By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous
unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford
and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,”
-the Director makes the sign of the T
-he proposes to dismiss Bernard to Iceland
-he asks Bernard to show areason as to why he shoudn’t execute the
judgement passed on him
-Bernard says he does
-Linda is the reason
-“There was a gasp, a murmur of astonishment and horror; a young
girl screamed; standing on a chair to get a better view someone upset two
test-tubes full of spermatozoa. Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful
bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of
middle-agedness, ”
-she enters the room smiling
-Linda recognized the Director
-she started to call him Tomakin
-Linda asked the Director if she remembered her
-the Director is in shock
-Linda then throws her arms around him
-the crowd starts to laugh
-"You made me have a baby," she screamed above the
uproar. There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not
knowing where to look.”
-the crowd in now silent
-she said she was the baby’s mother
-Linda is now ashamed and begins to cry
-she calls John in
-John fell in front of the director and began to call him father
-“The word
(for "father" was not so much obscene as–with its connotation of
something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child--bearing–merely
gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);”
-laughter
broke from the crowd
-the
Director was humiliated
-he put
his hands over his ears and ran out
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