Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s purpose that eluded him. Each game ends in a gain or a loss: but of what? What were the true stakes? At checkmate, beneath the foot of the king, knocked aside by the winner’s hand, a black or a white square remains.

The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the name of the airport changes.”