Here the Temesvar contraption is strung to solve the problem WHITE TO PLAY AND MATE IN SIX. The black king is designated for attack. (The reader is advised not to try to solve the problem without carefully tuning the apparatus.)
This odd little book describes a complicated method for gaining the advantage in chess, making use of extensive quotations from the medieval manuscript of Adso of Melk on the one hand, and a contraption of mirrors and sailor’s cordage on the other.
This dazzling novel describes the efforts of a young author’s wife, Katherine Sagamore, to help her husband, Peter Sagamore, get over a severe case of writer’s block. Nine months pregnant and out sailing with Peter, she asks him to tell her a story,…
One of the early beat poets, Murphy was part of the San Francisco scene in the 1950s, a friend of Ferlinghetti, and an admirer of Allen Ginsberg. Sailing Shoes was his best seller, and he wanted it to be his Howl. At readings he was given to shouting…
This is not a translation of Cervantes’ Don Quijote. It is, rather, an original work that is line-for-line identical with Cervantes’ effort. Menard, a twentieth century French writer, wrote it by completely immersing himself in the world of Cervantes…
Orlando’s life-poem. It tracks the changes in his life (and, later, hers) from the poem’s inception in the 1580s until she presents the published book to the eponymous tree itself on the grounds of the family manor in the year 1928. The work’s…
The life philosophy of Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, and his belief that humanity could only find reason, peace, and happiness by living, as our ancestors did, in the trees. The Baron had, as a child, a fight with his father over the boy’s…
Ts’ui Pên was the governor of Yunnan Province when he renounced his post to write a huge novel whose intricacy would reflect the giant labyrinth he built at the same time. Unfortunately, Ts’ui was murdered before he was able to complete either task.…