Introduction [The Birth Of Number 17]

Introduction (The birth of Number Seventeen) Mother 210: Oh, isn't it beautiful! or he, isn't he beautiful I should say. And he'll be number seventeen of generation fortythree. He looks like a number seventeen, doesn't he? Something about the eyes. Everyone in the corridor is talking about it, -even across the campus, right out to unit ninety-five. I think they're probably a bit jealous, actually. So few people in our unit get the chance. He comes from eighty percent western scientific stock, but they say he has a sprinkling of the crossbred artistic balance from generation twenty-six; -which, let's face it, was a a very good year.