Saturday, April 2, 2022

Being and Time

We are but chessmen, destined, it is plain,
That great chess player, Heaven, to entertain;
    It moves us on life’s chess-board to and fro,
And then in death’s box shuts up again.

Omar Khayyám, ca. 1100
English translation by Edward Henry Whinfield

Checkmate, April 1, 2022. Photo: Stefano Marmino.

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