“Mr. Denker was of the romantic school
of chess – always looking to attack.”
Related material:
From Endgame:
Black the knight upon that ocean,
Bright the sun upon the king.
Dark the queen that stands beside him,
White his castle, threatening.
In the shadows’ see a bishop
Guards his queen of love and hate.
Another move, the game will be up;
Take the queen, her knight will mate.
The knight said “Move, be done. It’s over.”
“Love and resign,” the bishop cried.
“When it’s done you’ll stand forever
By the darkest beauty’s side.”
From Log24.net, Feb. 18, 2003:
Kali, a goddess sometimes depicted
as a dancing girl; Kali is related to kAla,
time, according to one website, as
“the force which governs and stops time.”
See also the novel The Fermata,
by Nicholson Baker.
From an entry of Sunday, Jan. 2,
the day Denker died:
“Time had been canceled.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
From Truth and Style, a tribute
to the late Amy Spindler, style editor
of the New York Times Magazine:
“I don’t believe in truth. I believe in style.”
— Hugh Grant in Vogue magazine, July 1995
From a related page,
The Crimson Passion:
“He takes us to the central activity
of mathematics—which is imagining….”
— Harvard Magazine on
Harvard mathematician
and author Barry Mazur.
For related material on Mazur, see
“The teenagers aren’t all bad.
I love ’em if nobody else does.
There ain’t nothing wrong
with young people.
Jus’ quit lyin’ to ’em.”