“Pocket: Do you know that there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?
Kent: Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.
Pocket: Well, that's a scratchy spot of cat wank. But bloody well said.”

—  Christopher Moore , book Fool

Ch 15 - In a Lover's Eye - pg 184
Fool (2009)

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