Vinny says:
doesn’t it suck being right all the time?Balbulican says:
The Game of Go, as played traditionally in Japan, is conducted on a grid 19 squares by 19. The lines forming the grid are painted with lacquer made according to an ancient recipe: no other form of lacquer is acceptable. The Board itself is carefullyBalbulican says:
crafted with a hollow spot in the middle, for no other reason than to create a pleasing sound when a stone is placed upon the Board. The white stones are made from other of pearl from the Island of Osmi: black stones are traditionally obsidian, burnished to a low glossy finish. Now, you would think thatBalbulican says:
with all the attention paid to detail, each traditional Go game would be perfect. And yet, if you line up 19 stones along the grid, you will ALWAYS find that the stones, laid end to end, are just a tiny bit too long to fit neatly along the line, and overlap it slightly. And that is becauseBalbulican says:
the traditional makers of go games build that tiny miscalculation, that minute flaw, into their games, so as not to anger the gods with a vain human attempt at perfection.Balbulican says:
So, in the same spirit,Balbulican says:
Every once in a while I permit myself to make an error.
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