“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
Weekend Editors
Hyperallergic's Weekend editors are Natalie Haddad, Thomas Micchelli, Albert Mobilio, and John Yau.
Weekend Words: Amnesia
“I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.”
Weekend Words: Sign
“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Weekend Words: President
“I might be President by now if it weren’t for this ‘queer’ thing.”
Weekend Words: Judge
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”
Weekend Words: Nuclear
“We don’t want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we, Jack?”
Weekend Words: Seventy
“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”