It is the mark of a fine chess player to tip over his own king when he sees that defeat is inevitable, no matter how many moves remain in the game.
- quoted in A Gentleman in Moscow
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
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The System is Down
Sometime ago, I went to a diagnostics centre for a routine blood test. It was the first time that I was going to this one, partly because ...
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Something curious happened on June 3 rd 2024, the day before the results of the Indian election were announced: the stock market shot up by...
