Dominic the test
Dominic – the test. Part OneHis given name is Dominic, or Dom to friends and pretty much everyone else. The irony still amuses me. Whilst Dominic is in my ‘care’, however, he is known as 790 – the first three digits of his slave registration number, which he has been required to memorise in full.It’s easier all round to know a boy by a number. I find it raises the threshold at which a sadist is at risk of succumbing to feelings of empathy, or – whisper it – mercy. For the boy, the number is...