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Porter at the Medical Terrace. The building's knowledge of its own equipment lives partly in him — which trolley has the bad castor — and that is why he is one of the six named as having to come. On the night of the evacuation he carries a trolley up the last two flights by hand, takes over hand-ventilation from the ward nurse on her count having been shown how twice, is handed the four-person-carry rota by Kim and told to solve it before anybody sleeps, and re-lays the whole physio hall at two in the morning when the lane through the middle stops working.
Porter at the Medical Terrace. The building's knowledge of its own equipment lives partly in him — which trolley has the bad castor — and that is why he is one of the six named as having to come. On the night of the evacuation he carries a trolley up the last two flights by hand, takes over hand-ventilation from the ward nurse on her count having been shown how twice, is handed the four-person-carry rota by Kim and told to solve it before anybody sleeps, and re-lays the whole physio hall at two in the morning when the lane through the middle stops working. His signature is doing the job with less than the job needs and finishing it anyway — a four-person lift with three people and a rolled coat, badly, and getting it done. His one break in landed prose is falling asleep on a shift, which he had never once done — and it is used as evidence of the air, not of him.