Section 6: The Script, pages 122-152 Summary

Dr. Poole and Loola rediscover monogamy and romantic love, and he reads aloud to her from the little volume of Shelley's poetry that he rescued. She does not understand, and neither did he before today. Two weeks later, Dr. Poole and Loola enter the Unholy of Unholies after other couples, and they all collect their aprons and enter another queue to await their tasks which are assigned by the Grand Inquisitor's Chief Assistant. When Dr. Poole is told to report to the Director of Food Production where he will receive a laboratory, plot of land and four laborers, Loola begs to be employed as one of his laborers, but she is to be employed in mining cemeteries as in the previous year. She is threatened with twenty-five lashes for objecting and so says goodbye to...