He's looking for a key, some kind of symbiotic relationship between Cole's appearance on a New York commuter train and
an unknown visitor in Tegucigalpa, a commonality of design or purpose reflected in the deliberate aggregation of
machine-cut wooden tiles on his bedroom floor. Is ONEFIVEFIVE a time, a street address, or a measure of currency? Is it
a cipher, or is he expected to instantly discern its meaning? The past is full of numbers, even for someone like Weyl
who's spent his life as little more than hired muscle. There are the numbers he knows and the numbers which have been
withheld from him, and then there are the numbers he doesn't know he knows and this will be one of them. This number
belongs to him like a disease that others share without any common cure.
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