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.