It is suppertime at the Quinine residence. Child-genius, Kolya is working out whether he should favour a force mediated by a hypothetical graviton, or a discrete structure of spacetime (as in loop quantum gravity) while his grandfather (Samuel) tries to solve a more taxing problem - how Jorvik Stilten can produce 36,811 copies of this week's Nordic Newsletter for the Chinese market. It is Leporello Swanson who rides to his rescue. His Shanghai friend's grandmother made her fortune in the 1970s printing several million copies of a 'Lin Biao endorsed' edition of Mao's Little Red Book. She retired in 1986 to raise satin Angora rabbits, but her press is still in operation printing poundshop catalogues, and it has spare capacity.
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