Well, if God doesn’t play with dice perhaps he plays Chess?
The first time I came across FitzGerald’s translation of Omar Khaiyam’s Rubaiyat (quatrains), the one that spoke to me most was this one: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the... Sign in to see full entry.