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A Story of Many Titles |
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MITCH BERMAN |
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Originally appeared in Agni
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A Story of Many Titles |
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Before everyone came to order there was much milling about & reading aloud of nametags written in a thousand different languages, in Cyrillic & Chinese & Phoenician & in the case of one participant who is apparently a prisoner, numbers. Nobody knew if his name* should be pronounced “Two Eight Two Eight Eight” or “Twenty-Eight Thousand, Two Hundred & Eighty-Eight.” |
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* Or her name; 28,288 is hardly the most masculine of numbers. |
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