PART THREE — THE SIGNATURE · 2855 to 2856

Chapter Twenty-Five — The Fixer's Table

Dez Carrillo — the man who kept the lists, and by the last weeks of 2855, the fourth year after the closing, the man who kept several kinds of lists — spent the end of that year trying to settle a wedding, and failing, and watch him fail, because the failure walks this book, at last, to the corner table it has been circling for two parts, and buys the nine most educational minutes of Dez Carrillo's life.

But the wedding first. The book owes a word about where weddings happened, because the where is the whole dispute.