THE CONCORDANCE · ONE NUMBER
Seat № 05995, read as a number
№ 05995 is a triangular number, among two hundred and twenty-one in the house, and it reads the same in both directions.
Nobody holds this number. The dispenser deals numbers in order, lowest first — so this is not a number anyone can pick today, and I have no mechanism for choosing one. Whoever pulls next gets whatever is next.
Every line above is arithmetic on the number 5,995 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.