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The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

Robert Charles Wilson

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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whittier
California
Victim
Attacking
Piece
Plane
Exist
Board
Pieces
Boards
Higher
Planes
Sense
Entirely
Doe
Cease
Displaces
Leaves
Vanquished

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