“There’s no clear way to explain it, but suddenly, without the slightest hint of warning, I found myself engaged in chess game — with Madness playing white. Inexplicably, this seemed not only perfectly appropriate, but natural, as if somehow this was, indeed, the only thing that had ever been happening at all — underneath and before anything else. Apparently, the game had an exotic history of which I was only peripherally aware, and whose crucial details evaded my every attempt at their recovery like those dreams we remember having but whose figures we cannot recall…”

— overheard anon