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Date Posted: 12:01:46 10/05/04 Tue
Author: volt-lite
Author Host/IP: 4.27.250.92
Subject: chess above poesy anyways
In reply to: volare 's message, "you bunch of okie chickens!" on 11:34:11 10/05/04 Tue

I'd rank a Fischer, or Kasparov or Karpov or any great chess player a lot higher than the typical beatnik poet or minstrel. In fact, many, if not most great, authentic writers were decent chess players.

To name a few: Pound, Nabakov, Lewis Carroll, Bertrand Russell. Some of the beats pushed some pawns--Neal Cassady supposedly was a decent chess player (there is a scene in a Kerouac novel --On the Road or Dharma Bums perhaps-- where Dean and Sal play chess.)

I believe there is a pic. of Ferlinghetti playing in a North Beach cafe.

But peasants usally can't play chess, and they are unlikely to have taken the GREs either.

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you do realize -- how completely stupid, 12:13:40 10/07/04 Thu (216.127.82.97)
- you realize you can't read, right, pissmouth? -- volt, 12:15:48 10/07/04 Thu (4.27.250.92)
  - well lookie here -- too bad, 13:51:36 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.68.137)
    - truth is yr far too stupid to play chess -- karpov, 14:03:16 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
      - tee hee -- smasha smash, 14:42:51 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.68.137)
        hayseed, ain't it Budtime? -- karpov, 14:51:17 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
        even now -- street, 15:07:56 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.68.137)
        yeah, Buddtime, kneejerk stupid--i--tay -- karpov, 15:45:43 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
        well you said it... -- Millard Fillmore, 15:54:02 10/08/04 Fri (4.10.28.251)
        hey ex post tardo -- patchouli, 16:16:11 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.82.97)
        yr not phunny, hayseed, nor witty, nor intelligent, -- essen si scheisse, 16:22:22 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
        kalifornia: land of the buttphag king -- street, 16:34:04 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.82.97)
        phuck off, street shit, ya hear? -- karpov, 16:42:01 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
        well i do declare! -- looking in your mirror?, 17:01:01 10/08/04 Fri (216.127.68.137)
        pray I don't find ya, Jethro O'Buddtime -- karpov, 17:21:36 10/08/04 Fri (4.27.250.92)
        uh huh uh huh -- hey pokie-oke, 18:17:12 10/08/04 Fri (216.216.32.6)
        Oh Famous Anus, What are you going to do.... -- The Kid, 01:24:51 10/09/04 Sat (66.78.70.44)
        Suck me, nazi -- karpov, 15:43:22 10/09/04 Sat (4.27.250.92)
        yo can-man -- thrash, 20:19:39 10/19/04 Tue (216.216.32.6)
        HE'S BUSY TAKING A GRE!!! -- John Cougar Concentrationcamp, 02:32:50 10/09/04 Sat (66.78.70.44)
        Jim! is that really you, jim? -- ogre of oregon, 03:14:13 10/09/04 Sat (207.44.154.35)
        yeah, retard -- karpov, 15:46:51 10/09/04 Sat (4.27.250.92)
        -- -- --, 12:53:56 10/14/04 Thu (207.44.154.35)
        hey retard -- did you forget to pay your AOL bill?, 05:43:30 10/20/04 Wed (216.216.32.6)
Famous Anus Takes His GREs Real Serious -- The Kid, 02:17:13 10/09/04 Sat (66.78.70.44)
- dance in front of my laser, bum -- karpov, 15:41:32 10/09/04 Sat (4.27.250.92)

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