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Today in lecture we said Luzhin sees the world as chess, and chess is a game with a winner + loser—in other words, a zero-sum game.

Crazy pull! Someone yelled that term in the middle of lecture and I got flashbacks to my favorite scene ever from Ted Chiang’s short story / the Villeneuve adaptation. Also we literally watched “Incendies” last night. Last night! Patterns everywhere, Nabokov would be thrilled.