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Is everyone with one face called a Milo?""Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.""How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.""I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted."Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise. book-quotemathematicsnamesI know you," said Maddy. "You're -""What's a name?" Loki grinned. "Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him.""But Loki died," she said, shaking her head. "He died on the field at Ragnarok.""Not quite." He pulled a face. "You know there's rather a lot the Oracle didn't foretell, and old tales have a habit of getting twisted.""But in any case, that was centuries ago," Maddy said bewildered. "I mean - that was the End of the World, wasn't it?""So?" said Loki impatiently. "This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either. book-quotenameslokiragnarok
