Malte’s Reviews > The Watchmaker of Filigree Street > Status Update

"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."

Language as delicate as a pocketwatch!
I am really enjoying the characters thus far; they are carefully deliberated and very much alive.