Speech is the twin of my vision…
Beast of prey + monk = chessmaster
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Did Ingmar Bergman invent the death-playing-chess meme?
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Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess MIRANDA: Sweet lord, you…
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My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those…
In the latest issue of Print Magazine, the graphic designer and design…
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) studies Famous First Editions at the Hollywood Public…
“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player…
Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow)…
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these…
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the…
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“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece…
Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson…
DINNER. Not a little fit, not a little fit sun sat in shed…
This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British…
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ORANGE: Egmont, our interests have for years weighed upon my heart; I…
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