Unnecessary Obstacles
On games, rules, and the strange pleasure of being inconvenienced on purpose. A pile of matches, sixteen wooden pieces, a philosopher who wrote as a dying grasshopper, and the moment chess gained its queen.
The Symphony
On the urge to learn everything, and how the disciplines, heard together, become one piece of music. With a first letter: who I am, and what this place will hold.
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