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A review by kendelllwendell
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
5.0
This book is so genuinely, delightfully WEIRD and the reading experience was often overwhelming, but oh my god it was all worth it -- a prescient picture of the world (past and future) as a chess game:
"It suddenly struck me that every move in chess was old and had already been played by someone. Perhaps our history has already been played too, and we shift our figures with the same moves to the same checks as in times long past" (188-9).
There's so much to this book, and im honestly still processing it all.
"It suddenly struck me that every move in chess was old and had already been played by someone. Perhaps our history has already been played too, and we shift our figures with the same moves to the same checks as in times long past" (188-9).
There's so much to this book, and im honestly still processing it all.