"He [Timur] was declared to have been not only a military genius, but a great chess player, and even the inventor of a game called Perfect Chess, played on a 110-square board. ...each player has, in addition to the standard pieces, two giraffes, two camels, two siege engines, and a vizier." --Elif Batuman, The Possessed (2010)
"older now
than my parents lived to be
fall stillness
the trees are barren and
silence arrives with the cold"
--Allen McGill in Tanka Splendor 2004
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