GR translation: or communicate through the gray quadrilles

[Mike Jing]

P232.16-26   From overhead, from a German camera-angle, it occurs to Webley
Silvernail, this lab here is also a maze, i’n’t it now . . . behaviorists
run these aisles of tables and consoles just like rats ‘n’ mice.
Reinforcement for them is not a pellet of food, but a successful
experiment. But who watches from above, who notes their responses? Who
hears the small animals in the cages as they mate, or nurse, or communicate
through the gray quadrilles, or, as now, begin to sing . . . come out of
their enclosures, in fact, grown to Webley Silvernail-size (though none of
the lab people seem to be noticing) to dance him down the long aisles and
metal apparatus, with conga drums and a peppy tropical orchestra taking up
the very popular beat and melody of:

Are these "gray quadrilles" the wires of the cages?
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