Stefan Zweig

A Chess Story

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  • Ian Copplehas quoted4 years ago
    a person, an intellectual person who, without going insane and for ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, directs his mind’s full analytic force time and again onto the laughable task of backing a wooden king into the angle of a wooden board
  • Ian Copplehas quoted4 years ago
    ancient and yet always new, mechanical in its structure yet animated only by the imagination, limited to a geometrically petrified space yet unlimited in its permutations, always developing yet ever sterile, a logic with no result, a mathematics without calculations
  • Ali Bahramihas quoted5 years ago
    bustle and commotion
  • Ali Bahramihas quoted5 years ago
    ldren ran up and down flights of stairs while the orchestra played imperturbably on deck. I was standing in conversation with a friend on the promenade deck, slightly apart from this turmoil, when flashbulbs popped starkly two or three times beside us—it seemed that a few reporters had managed to hastily interview and photograph some celebrity just before our departure. My friend looked across and smiled. “You have an odd fish on board with you there, that’s Czentovic.” And since I must have looked fairly baffled in response to this news, he exp
  • Emre Denizayhas quoted6 years ago
    take leave of their friends
  • Emre Denizayhas quoted6 years ago
    skew-whiff caps
  • Emre Denizayhas quoted6 years ago
    bustle and commotion
  • Hans whas quoted6 years ago
    of his meteoric career
  • Hans whas quoted6 years ago
    orchestra played imperturbably on deck
  • Hans whas quoted6 years ago
    in skew-whiff caps
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