This quote comes towards the beginning of the novel and
describes the machine that Montag sees that is used to flush out his wife's system after she has
taken an overdose and tried to kill herself. This quote helps establish how impersonal and
regular the system is, as we discover that such a process occurs very often in this dystopian
world of emptiness and despair. Note what Montag thinks just before this quote is
said:
The entire
operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yeard. The woman on the bed was no more
than a hard stratum of marble they had
reached.
Note the slightly ironic note
in the quote you have mentioned. Can it really "slush up the emptiness," which is, of course, the
real reason behind Mildred's attempted suicide? Thus this quote seems to point towards the limits
of technology and the way that it is unable to meet the needs of humans--a key factor of this
society.
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