"The goal of each party is winning or losing, but of what? What is the true rate? When the winner, putting Mat, relieve the king opened the box — black or white. Bringing their gains to abstraction, to get down to their essence, Han found that the last, decisive, deceptively hiding behind the shells of a variety of values of the Empire— just a piece of planed wood — nothing..."
(Italo Calvino, Invisible cities)

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