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The ideas explained in this booklet of Chessery are intended to challenge the bold and rash, the adventuring and imaginative spirit in all players, ranging from very low grade Duffers up to top-rank Masters. (The ideas are from Alician Chess). Perhaps the real difficulty for a Duffer is that he has far too wide a choice of moves in playing the ordinary game of chess. He has, as it were, rather a banquet instead of merely digestive biscuits to munch chessically!!

Mojo rules over a separate universe called the “Mojoverse,” a dimension “where all beings are addicted to his gladiator-like television programs,” according to Wikipedia.

I think it’s terrible. I think it’s real bad news that there is a parasitic mutant in the body of the most powerful mutant on Earth. I think that’s not good.

The view of mathematicians that emerges from Rota’s book is not that of the middle-aged, childlike, cloud-nine geniuses of cliché. It is rather that of the deeply competitive, jealous, math macho, sometimes close to the loony bin, organized into discrete and largely non-intercommunicating bands of possibly happy brothers who identify joy with manic highs, and who, as they batten on each others’ work, combine inspiration with nitpicking and have come up with as remarkable a corpus of intellectual material as exists under the sun.

Notice the island of horses! Haha.

You and I approach a castle. One of us has watched only “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the other only “Game of Thrones.” What is the meaning, to the collective “we,” of yon castle?

In this book, he was the first to point out that Northern Europe surpassed Southern Europe in children’s literature.

Of course, if your kid is a good-for-nothing hooligan and sociopath who tortures hamsters and eventually winds up in prison for embezzling from his grandmother’s Etsy business – well, you might not really enjoy your extra years on the planet.

Angela Lemond, the national spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, told USA Today water is “the gold standard fluid for the body,” as it is believed to help aid in digestion and other important body functions.

Martov had spoken of arms, too, but Lenin had only scorn for Martov’s twice-removed formula for “arming the people with the burning desire to arm themselves.”