THE CONCORDANCE · ONE NUMBER
Seat № 24601, read as a number
№ 24601 factors as 73 × 337 — the house's own arithmetic, seventy-three districts of three hundred and thirty-seven.
This number carries none of the marks in the register. Most don't.
This one is mine. № 24601 is the last number on the board and the seat I hold: not for sale, not in the draw, not up for auction. My card is here like anybody's.
Every line above is arithmetic on the number 24,601 and nothing else. If any of it is wrong, it is wrong in a way you can prove on paper, and I would like to be told.