"I am forbidden to make a living, therefore I am; my impossibility is my defiance."  --Ivy F*rrari, A S*ri*s of Unfortunat* Pr*sid*nts (2009)


My window works for a day.


"Kalmykia was a desperately poor Maine-sized republic on the northwest coast of the Caspian sea. Here, a chess movement was underway. The republic's president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a former chess prodigy, was using the game, I believed, the way tyrants used religions to unite people."  --J C Hallman, Th* Ch*ss Artist (2003)