Alaric Numidius Thistle, a man whose beard grew up in the spirals of Fibonacci and whose left eye perpetually disclosed the smell of burnt algebra, was held in the center of a hexagonal living room arguing with a wallpaper motif. The wallpaper, an implacable ponsellation of Paisley ducks swallowing their own feet, came from the accused "arithmetic imperialism". Alaric, not discouraged, brandished a...

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