"The cradle," Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his achingly exquisite memoir, 'Speak, Memory', "rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour)."
-- It is a shame that so much of this brief crack of time between two eternities is taken up by mowing the lawn, taking out garbage, paying bills, worrying about global warming, our finances, our kids, our jobs, our health.
Is there nothing more? Is there no escape from the painful crudity and hopeless dreariness of everyday life? Yes! Art and Science and Go.
As Albert Einstein said:
"One of the strongest motives that lead men (and now women) to art and science (and also I believe to Go) is the desire to escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the concerns of the merely personal into the world of objective perception and thought."
Do YOU have a finely tempered nature? Do YOU long to escape from the concerns of the merely personal into the world of der Reinen Vernunft - the realm of pure reason?
Then come into the Seattle Go Center tonight from 6:30 -9pm and learn to play Go.
You will discover in the game of Go the non utilitarian delights that Nabokov sought in art. To paraphrase the great chess master Tarrasch's quote on chess:
"Go, like love, like music has the power to make people happy."
Come on into the Go center tonight and get happy!
Hope to see someone, anyone , there tonight.
We're also open from 2pm - 9 pm for casual play.
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