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Some 10 years ago I started reading it for the first time, enjoyed going through about a third of it but got distracted by other equally impractical projects and ne
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Giorgio Fontana
“Era un giorno d'autunno dal colore bluastro, in compagnia di Boris Spasskij. Stavano analizzando la partita appena giocata e Miša muoveva i pezzi avanti e indietro soltanto per cercare di sacrificarli: a ogni variante proposta da Boris replicava immolando un pedone o un cavallo, per scoprire puntualmente che le combinazioni non funzionavano, la catena di mosse si spezzava in qualche anello. Eppure una via doveva esserci; doveva pur esistere il modo di presentare una nuova offerta all'altare.
Si accaniva con foga, incapace di arrendersi all'evidenza, e l'amico a un certo punto gli diceva: "Senti, lo sai che non funziona cosi, vero? Che non e' possibile trovare sempre un sacrificio ?".
"Si, si, lo so", rispondeva Miša sbuffando. E poi una risata: "Ma vorrei tantissimo che lo fosse! ".”
Giorgio Fontana, Il Mago di Riga

Toshihiko Izutsu
“And as a fruit gradually ripening, your time will ripen, and by a natural process your interior and exterior will finally become smoothed out into one whole sheet.”
Toshihiko Izutsu, The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism

M.W. Craven
“lettuce he’d bought in a moment of ill-advised optimism. A bit of cheese so mouldy it was a short evolutionary jump away from developing lungs.”
M.W. Craven, Cut Short

“The Phoenician system was a much easier consonantal system made up of only a few graphemes (letters). These “letters” did not stand for things, but for the sounds that made up words.”
Robert R. Cargill, The Cities That Built the Bible

Giorgio Fontana
“Botvinnik affermava sempre, e con orgoglio, di non giocare mai per puro piacere. Miša restava senza parole: il piacere era la ragione principale per cui lui giocava.”
Giorgio Fontana, Il Mago di Riga

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