All facts about the locations, rooms and areas where the action takes place.
Bottling Room
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» in the Bottling Room there are lots of bottles with eggs |
» the eggs are transfered by the Matriculators from their test-tubes to the larger containers |
» the morula is dropped on the peritoneal lining and the saltine solution is poured in |
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Decanting Room
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» this society's equivalent of Delivery Room (Kreissaal) |
» room where babies are "hatched" |
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Embryo Room
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Fertilizing Room
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» surgical introduction (ovaries) |
» brought into incubators |
» always kept at optimum temperate |
» the liquor is drawn of from the test-tubes |
» the eggs are inspected for abnormalities |
» the eggs are cornted |
» the eggs are transfered to a porous receptacle |
» immersed into a boullion of free swimming spematozoa |
» ovaries are fertilized with male gamete |
» Alphas and Betas remain until they are definitly bottled |
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Organ Store
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» after the bootles have been prestinated in details they are send down to the Embryo Store |
» flaps of fresh sow's peritoneum ready cut to the proper size come shooting up in little lifts from the Organ Store in the sub-basement |
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Park Lane Hospital for the Dying
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» Place: London, a 1st class hotel-like hospital, a skyscraper for the dying, sixty-storey tower |
» Atmosphere: pleasant, bright colours, soft music, TV sceens at the foot of every bed |
» People: friendly but strict nurses, the staff, twin Deltas in khaki uniforms being trained to be death-conditioned, no relatives, rare visitors or old sex partners, no need for people from outside the hospital |
» important chapters: 14 and 15 |
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Predestination Room
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