Jacob Lawrence, "The Marble Players" (1949)
Jacob Lawrence, The Marble Players (1949)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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April 17, 2005:

Why, why, why? Because, it's all logic and reason now, science, progress. Laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this that and the other. No place for three-headed cyclops in the South Seas. No place for cucumber trees, oceans of wine. No place for me.

What will become of the Baron?
Surely this time there is no escape!
What will become of the Baron
Surely this time
there is no
es-
cape.