Numbers

August 6, 2002

ILIVE in a strange city, interesting perhaps, because of a simple miracle that occurs every day: the miracle of a postman delivering a parcel to a house. Just imagine: that parcel got there. Just imagine: that parcel didn't get waylaid to some other address, when "address" in this city is a political problem and a philosophical question.

In other cities, an address is not merely a matter of the number of a building or house in a street. In othe

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