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"If I had to get a new Ph.D. now, I'd get it in polymer engineering - the manipulation of matter."
- Bart Kosko
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| Quadraturin | ||
| Substance that creates more space when applied to walls, floors and ceilings. |
In his fanciful story, Krzhizhanowsky provides a fanciful answer to the problem faced by Soviet citizens like Sutulin, who have been assigned strict housing limits: eighty-six square feet per apartment.
| So then: we have discovered - this is a secret now - an agent for biggerizing rooms. Well, won't you try it?" The stranger's hand popped out of the briefcase and proffered Sutulin a narrow dark tube, not unlike a tube of paint, with a tightly screwed cap and a leaden seal. Sutulin fidgeted bewilderedly with the slippery tube and, though it was nearly dark in the room, made out on the label the clearly printed word: Quadraturin... On closer inspection it turned out that this zinc packet was tightly fitted - as is often done by the makers of patented agents - with a thin transparent paper whose ends were expertly glued together. Sutulin removed the paper sheath from the Quadraturin, unfurled the rolled-up text, which showed through the paper's transparent gloss, and read:
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by Sigizmund Krzhizhanowsky. Published by Not Known in 1925 Additional resources -
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Sutilin carelessly spills the concentrated Quadraturin onto the floor of his room, which grows larger and larger.
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