Chess Match (8)
By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Spectacles

chess-9

My little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtain’d warm from the snowy weather,
When you and I play’d chess together,
Checkmated by each other’s eyes?

— From “The Chess-Board,” by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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Eighth in an occasional series.

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About the author: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is coeditor of Hilobrow.com, and co-curator of Significant Objects. His books: Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut.

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