Black linework design of the letters G, a greater-than sign, a caret and a V above a horizontal rule, with the words God is greater than the highs and lows in italic script beneath.

God is greater than the highs and lows lettering

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The design shows the letters G, a greater-than sign, a caret and a V in thin black strokes, placed above a single horizontal line. Beneath the line, two lines of italic serif text read God is greater than the highs and lows. The image is black on a plain white background, with the composition centred and no body visible.

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The lift in Carrow House had been dead since Tuesday, so Dad and I took the stairs with the shopping between us, counting landings out loud because he said it kept the knees honest. On the eleventh floor he stopped, one hand flat on the cold rail, and tapped the scuffed paint where someone had once scratched a G, a greater-than sign, a caret and a V in biro. Nobody else on the estate had bothered to work it out.

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Thirty-one years he taught maths at the comprehensive by the ring road, and he still couldn't leave a sum alone. That's a greater-than, he said, all mouth. The big number gets the open jaws and the small one gets pointed at. He drew it in the air with one finger. Put God on the hungry side, he said, and everything else, the highs and the lows, is just what's sitting at the bottom of the sum.

I told him that was a lot of working for a prayer. He laughed the wheezy laugh he'd had since his chest went, and we carried on up. Floor fourteen. Floor fifteen. The strip lights buzzed as if they were arguing about it.

At the top the roof door was propped with a brick, and the whole city lay below in its orange smudge, the ring road a ribbon of headlights. He set the bags down and breathed for a while. Then the lift pinged behind us, mended at last by someone who'd been paid to care. He stepped in first, pressed G, and watched the numbers fall without once looking back at the stairs.