Model Reality Quotes

“An old hand came down and touched a crown, veered past it to elect a seahorse, white as death: it leaped forward, but currents carried it slantwise. To be good, a chess player, too, had to convert his field to the entire universe, himself the ruler of that private enclosure—though from a pawn's-eye view, of course, it wasn't an enclosure at all, but, infinitely, all there was. Henry enjoyed chess, but found it finally too Euclidien, too militant, ultimately irrational, and in spite of its precision, formless really—nameless motion.”
― Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.