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"A beauty of ሰንጠረዥ /səntʼərəʒ/, Ethiopian Chess, is by nature no computer could truly defeat a great or even good player."

"Word of the Day: BUMBLEBROTH (n.) a confused mess" --@HaggardHawks

Assay only Glimpsable for an Instant.

"XX

The night is freezing fast,
To-morrow comes December;
And winterfalls of old
Are with me from the past;
And chiefly I remember
How Dick would hate the cold.

Fall, winter, fall; for he,
Prompt hand and headpiece clever,
Has woven a winter robe,
And made of earth and sea
His overcoat for ever,
And wears the turning globe."

--A E Housman, Last Poems (1922)

"The crank philosopher Herr Teufelsdröckh in Sartor Resartus is largely based [on] Jean Paul, though the mental portrait is more a reflection of Carlyle’s flinty conservatism than any beliefs his deutsche Meister might have held."