There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. The Name of The Rose
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Don Quixote
Chess ... a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. The Irrational Knot
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one? Dead Souls
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