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Crystalpunk first:
I had a music-box moment when the postman delivered a parcel containing the latest publication of one-letter-word genius Craig Conley.
If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess~Calvino Dictionary takes the
chess-paragraph from Italo Calvino's
Invisible Cities as the starting point for a piece-by-piece mapping of each piece and its corresponding meaning. For instance:
White Queen: a woman combing her long hair in a mirror; a mullioned window; an illuminated canoe; a fringed cushion.
Black King's Bishop: a high priest's temple; a scholar of vanished alphabets; a papyrus cabinet; a necropolis.
Black King's Pawn: the weeds of a vacant lot; a courtesan with an ostrich-plume fan; a rug weaver; a tired actor.
—Wilfried Hou Je Bek, author of
Gilgamesh for Apes
