 Other interlocking threads in various typefaces start throughout the book.At the bottom right of the last panel is the sentence "Toute Pensée émet un Coup de Dés" ("Every Thought issues a Throw of Dice").The philosopher Quentin Meillassoux argues that the formal construction of the poem is governed by the book's physical relationship to the number 12, while the contents of the poem are constructed under a metrical constraint related to the number 7.