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milliards of mechanical slaves. Unrestricted, free and consummated in man. And maybe more than man.
Alquist
Super-man?
Domin
Yes. Oh, only to have a hundred years of time! Another hundred years for the future of mankind.
Busman
[Sotto voce]: Carried forward, four hundred and twenty millions.
[The music stops.]
Hallemeier
What a fine thing music is! We ought to have gone in for that before.
Fabry
Gone in for what?
Hallemeier
Beauty, lovely things. What a lot of lovely things there are! The world was wonderful and we—we here—tell me, what enjoyment did we have?
Busman
[Sotto voce]: Five hundred and twenty millions.