"A Game of Chess"

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  • "A Game of Chess"

    It took me two reads and then much further reflection to fathom why this article was entitled "A Game of Chess", but at least the effort was not nugatory (:

    http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/17...eath-of-death/

    Tangentially, I'm sure there are many Bob Dylan fans amongst us and Bob apodictically owes a tribute to T.S. Eliot's 1922 poem, 'The Waste Land', for some of his more poignant lyrics.

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    Re: "A Game of Chess"

    Jack, put that thesaurus away and go wash your hands!
    "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
    "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
    "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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      Re: "A Game of Chess"

      Originally posted by Peter McKillop View Post
      Jack, put that thesaurus away and go wash your hands!
      Maybe he can't; maybe he's swallowed the darn thing...

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        Re: "A Game of Chess"

        "The Waste Land", and more specifically, the second part of T.S. Eliot's immortal poem of the same name, subtitled 'A Game of Chess', resurfaces (:

        http://www.popmatters.com/post/17601...of-antagonism/

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