Italo Calvino Quotes

The Great Khan Tried To Concentrate On The Game: But Now It Was The Game's Reason That Eluded Him. The End Of Every Game Is A Gain Or A Loss: But Of What? What Were The Real Stakes? At Checkmate, Beneath The Foot Of The King, Knocked Aside By The Winner's Hand, Nothingness Remains: A Black Square, Or A White One. By Disembodying His Conquests To Reduce Them To The Essential, Kublai Had Arrived At The Extreme Operation: The Definitive Conquest, Of Which The Empire's Multiform Treasures Were Only Illusory Envelopes; It Was Reduced To A Square Of Planed Wood.

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