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  1. Feb 2021
    1. transported upstairs through the air tube and set about dressing himself

      definitely is a evolve era if he is transporting himself through tubes

    2. We’ve been thinking of our machine assisted selves for too long. My God, how we need a breath of honest air!”

      The nursery was too much of a luxury, did not learn to of limitations to an extent.

    3. I’m afraid so. One of the original uses of these rooms was so that we could study the patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind.

      This nursery was built to study and record patterns children left on the walls.

    4. “An old wallet of mine,” he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it… and the smell of a lion.

      Their children could of pictured an scenario that George too imagined once, but seems to have forgotten it, and was able to go back and be in that scenario due to his kids bringing it to his attention, thus why he says he found his "old wallet".

    5. ten-yearold children.

      Peter, their child , is 10 years old ?

    6. How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland with Alice and the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-looking moon.

      These are the other thing George may imagine after he steps foot through the Nursery Room

    7. Remarkable how the nursery read the thoughts in the children’s minds and created life to fill their every desire.

      The nursery reads thoughts and creates a scene or picture with an environment that seems real.

    8. occasionally they frightened you with their realism

      What ever is seen in the nursery, It is not claimed to be actually real, but it seems like it

    9. You look as if you didn’t know what to do with yourself in this house, either. You smoke a little more every morning and drink a little more every afternoon, and you are taking more pills to help you sleep at night. You’re beginning to feel unnecessary too.”

      It seems they use the "Nursery Room" to find some sort of relief, it seems to bring them a good form of energy, and it seems like a good outlet for George and his wife, I am inferring that they picture themselves in actual Africa, on a Veldt, when they are in the nursery.

    10. You know how difficult Peter is about that

      one of their childs name is Peter

    11. Soon an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color. It looked real to the smallest stone and bit of yellow summer grass. The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun.

      it seems they are imagining how they want the nursery could look.

    12. “But nothing’s too good for our children,” George had said.

      this is repetition, could mean he is putting emphasis on the reason why he's "taking a look" at the nursery; his reason could be for the his love for his kids.

    13. lights went on and off automatically as they left them behind.

      can infer the nursery's maintenance has not been kept up with if the light are flicking.

    14. making supper for four.

      I can infer George & his wife have two children, since she is cooking for a family of four