Patricia Lockwood quoting Nabokov —
‘I saw the board as a square pool of limpid water
with rare shells and stratagems rosily visible
upon the smooth tessellated bottom, which
to my confused adversary was all ooze and
squid-cloud.’ Conceptions of space, dimension,
movement, strategy.
— London Review of Books ,
Vol. 42 No. 21 · 5 November 2020
Related images —
From this journal on October 26:
From this journal this morning:
A dancer forms a heart shape with her hands. Finishing the gesture,
she recovers the point missing from the bottom of the above shield . . .
