{In the mind of Anand
}
"Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself."
Helene Cixous
Literary quotes appropriate to the Anand-Carlsen WCC
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You left out the best part: "I'd be crazy not to go crazy."
Nov 19, 2013
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#5
Hamlet act5:scene 2; slightly modified...
Let four captains
Bear Anand like a soldier to the stage
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royal;and for his passage,
The soldier's music and the rite of war
Speak loudly for him.
Nov 19, 2013
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#6
Inside the mind of Magnus Carlsen:
'I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?'
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
''His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.
At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.''
... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...
Don Quixote
"Mostly harmless."
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
Happy chess players are all alike; each unhappy chess player is unhappy in his own way.
A hit, a very palpable hit.
ivandh wrote:
"Mostly harmless."
lol. But Dont Panic!
Nov 20, 2013
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#14
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." - A Tale of Two Cities
Not sure it's particularly applicable to the situation, but it's literary and a pretty general one-size-fits-all stock approach that will work for almost any situation.
"So what am I supposed to do, but sit alone and chew my shoe? I'll just this about all that, I was the mouse who caught the cat."
-James Morrison
rooperi wrote:
ivandh wrote:
"Mostly harmless."
lol. But Dont Panic!
So long and thanks for all the curry.
Rsava wrote:
rooperi wrote:
ivandh wrote:
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So long and thanks for all the curry.
+1
Anand
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
“So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
Carlsen
“Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” (In answer to Journalist Question)
Chess fan watching Game 8
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a wimper."
The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot