The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere. - Robert Charles Wilson
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
- Robert Charles Wilson
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? - Robert Charles Wilson
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere. - Robert Charles Wilson
Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud… - Robert Charles Wilson
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud…
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live. - Robert Charles Wilson
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person,… - Robert Charles Wilson
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person,…
An honest book is almost as good as a friend. - Robert Charles Wilson
An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. - Robert Charles Wilson
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light. - Robert Charles Wilson
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.
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