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"Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-three."
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"Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-four."
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"Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-five."
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"Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-six."
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"Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-seven. …Nineteen thousand eight hundred twenty-seven. Right. Only one more tile to go.
The square tiles of the room were different from normal tiles. First of all, it was completely white. There were many white stones in the world, but they all had little wrongs in them – discolorations, grey tones, markings of different colors, etc.
However, no one could argue that the tiles in the room weren't completely white. Like an endless plain covered only in snow, the tiles were that kind of white.