The Move the Cat Makes

Глава 1Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie! Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor! Und bin so klug, als wie zuvor; /Heinrich Faust/E2–E4I remember my mother poorly.She was warm. She smelled of milk. Sometimes she licked the top of my head, and then everything was all right. I remember nothing else about her.I never saw my father at all.There were six of us brothers. Or perhaps some of us were sisters. At the time, I did not yet know how to tell such things apart. We simply lay in a tight heap, pushed one another with our paws, and tried to get closer to our mother’s belly.We were born on the border between good and evil.Good must have made the first move: we were born healthy and beautiful.Good always plays White.C7–C5The second move belonged to evil: we were thrown into a garbage dump.As though people had no…