The Zone of Interest

In the sitting room Norberte Uhl

(I like numbers. They speak of logic, exactitude, and thrift. I’m a little uncertain, sometimes, about ‘one’ – about whether it denotes quantity, or is being used as a . . . ‘pronoun’? But consistency’s the thing. And I like numbers. Numbers, numerals, integers. Digits!)

we dwelt in a land, she and I, where it amounted to an act of illicit collusion.