Glinting Q. Formalize ([info]ilanarama) wrote,
@ 2008-01-19 09:10:00
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Bobby Fischer Memorial Haiku
Playing chess with Death
Even the most skilled masters
Have to lose sometime.

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[info]fabularasa
2008-01-19 05:43 pm UTC (link)
So, are you pretty much in the Famous Dead Person Memorial Haiku business now?

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[info]ilanarama
2008-01-19 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Reviving it, anyway. So to speak. It was a custom at talk.bizarre, the Usenet group where I met most of the people on this friendslist who you don't know.

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[info]aubrem
2008-01-19 06:04 pm UTC (link)
He was one of those tortured geniuses I guess. The brain is a strange thing. : /

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[info]ilanarama
2008-01-19 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it sounds like he went kind of loony. Although these very specific mental gifts seem to go hand-in-hand with certain types of emotional and mental problems.

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[info]wisn
2008-01-20 02:01 pm UTC (link)
He died aged 64. Coincidence... or CONSPIRACY!!??!!

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[info]ilanarama
2008-01-21 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Hee. There's no such thing as coincidence! The little voices in my head tell me so.

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