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Hal's secret high: the hilltop tunnelled by design

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The Academy's tennis courts' Lung's Pump Room is underground and accessible only by tunnel. E.T.A. is abundantly, embranchingly tunnelled. This is by design.

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E.T.A.'s campus is a purpose-built body-machine with its own circulatory plumbing: "abundantly, embranchingly tunnelled," and pointedly "by design." The infrastructure that serves the tennis plant — Lung, Pump Room, laundry, weight room, all threaded underground — is the physical form of an institution organized entirely around producing and servicing athletic bodies, right down to a subterranean nervous system only the smallest kids' Tunnel Club fully knows.

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