I lost that game. It suddenly struck me that every move in chess was old and had already been played by someone. Perhaps our history has already been played too, and we shift our figures with the same moves to the same checks as in times long past. It is quite likely that just such a decent and reserved Bellamy once rounded up Negroes on the Ivory Coast, and shipped them off to Haiti or to Louisiana, letting them peg out in the steerage. He didn’t think anything wrong with it then, that Bellamy. Bellamy never things anything wrong. That’s why he’s incorrigible. “Black has lost,” said Bellamy
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