““I am playing a game called Futility,” she said. Are you familiar with it?
“How does one win?”
“You don’t. You can only postpone losing. I’ve managed to keep this particular game going for years.””

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 3, “The Dance of the Inheritors” (p. 46)

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