My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
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Quote for Today: Donald Kingsbury
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. ―Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Image: M.C. Escher, Belvedere, 1958 via Ωméga * with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: Austin Grossman
Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Austin Grossman
Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate … Continue reading Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
Quote for Today: Sappho
Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I with my restive heart Desired: Whom now shall I beguile To bring you to her love? Who now injures you, Sappho? For if she flees, soon shall she chase And, rejecting gifts, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sappho
Civilization: Beyond Earth and the ultra cool technologies of tomorrow from Polygon
Technology has often been spawned from ideas created by science fiction. Will strategy games play their part in the future? I grew up playing Risk, that wonderful board game where you became a colonial power, spreading your chosen color over the globe until you were made victorious through a combination of strategy and the luck of the dice. The … Continue reading Civilization: Beyond Earth and the ultra cool technologies of tomorrow from Polygon
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Quote for Today: Richard Brautigan
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richard Brautigan
Quote for Today: Bill Watterson
“How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.” ―Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes