The twenty-fifth year had a quality that Ernest came to recognize as the quality of the round number from the inside—not from the outside, where round numbers were occasions for celebration and retrospectives and the taking of stock, but from the inside, where a round number was simply the accumulation of all the numbers that had come before it, the present containing all the previous presents.Ernest had thought, in the thirteenth year, that the tenth year would be the threshold year—the year from which the nine years would become legible as a completed arc. The tenth year had been this, in the way that any completed decade was a threshold. But the tenth year had also been early in the arrangement's development, had come before the books and before the naming and before the full emergence of the inside account as a way of seeing.The twenty-fifth year was a different kind of threshold: not looking-back at the arc, but standing at the point where the arc was now too long to see from e
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