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"He had never understood proper mathematics. There was always a gaping hole in the middle of the idea - namely, that he had never been able to see what three was. From what he could tell, it was a thing of its own, but he had only been able to envisage it as a sign, which was like trying to conceive of a piano by looking hard enough at the letters in the word."