I got to the end of the Glass Bead Game, finally! And boy... did it disappoint. The final 20% of the book is several poems and three short stories written by the character whose life we just got a long, tired account of. Two of the three stories were actually really good and I thought …
Do more than one thing
As some of you may know, my other hobby besides writing is playing Go, or Baduk, and there are several sayings or 'proverbs' that players hear when learning the game. One of them is something like 'a move that only does one thing is a bad move'. IÂ had an epiphany one day, when having extra …
Go Beginnings
As you may or may not know, I've been obsessed with the board game 'go' for the past year or so. Posts about it seem somewhat out of place on this blog, though, so I've started a new blog for all my go thoughts. If you have any interest in complex board games like chess, …
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