“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”
“Algebra is numbers forgetting why they’re letters.”
“Our endless days are numbered.”
“If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?”
“Too many questions had been left unanswered. Every day there were new rumours saying that the Kamari numbers were growing. Nick wondered why so many people were joining them.”
“So teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”