Chess Match (4)

By: Joshua Glenn
December 19, 2009

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“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece in a game must feel when the opponent says: This piece is not to be touched — like an idle onlooker; for my hour has not yet struck.”

— Soren Kierkegaard, Diary (May 21, 1839)

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Fourth in an occasional series.

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