And yet the boy was right; shape was an irrelevancy in defining "Man," as unimportant as the bottle containing the wine.  You could even take a man out of his bottle, like the poor fellow whose life those Russians had persisted in "saving" by placing his living brain in a vitreous envelope and wiring him like a telephone exchange.  Gad, what a horrible joke!  He wondered if the poor devil appreciated the grisly humor of what had been