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[...] A technical article on the possibility of enriching the game of chess by means of eliminating one of the rooks' pawns. Menard proposes, recommends, disputes, and ends by rejecting this innovation.

—Jorge Louis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote" in Fictions
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