A Story of Many Titles

MITCH BERMAN

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Originally appeared in Agni

 

A Story of Many Titles

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.”

 


 

* Or her name; 28,288 is hardly the most masculine of numbers.

 

 

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