Friday, August 16, 2024

Amrutanjan

“I was lucky I got to meet [Bobby Fischer] in 2006”, five-time World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand said in a conversation with The Times of India. “You saw this tall bearded man emerge from one of Reykjavík’s apartment buildings. We’ve all seen pictures of Fischer, but seeing him in the flesh, you looked again. It ended with him asking me if I was carrying any Amrutanjan balm. Apparently, he used to stock it up when he was in New Jersey, but couldn’t find any in Iceland”.

René Magritte, The Art of Conversation, 1963.

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