We must assume, I think, thatthe forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink ofall its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of anamputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skips-pace piece), standing on a marginal file, "feels" in phantom extensions beyond theboard, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.
-Vladimir Nabokov
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