Springers p586

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Doesn't this - in the original pagination it's p. 576 - refer to the 
usage of knights as recognition signals in the world of secret services? 
Non-linear flexibility, surprising moves ...

Apart from its immediate function in the text, this could also be a nod 
towards Nabokov, who often  - take /The Defense/, or /The Real Life of 
Sebastian Knight/ (sic!) - wrote about chess and also liked to play the 
game with Vera.

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In our house we have this picture under glass.

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Jochen Stremmel:

> don't know if you know that Springer is the German name for knight
("flight has been given only to the Springer!") - and there is Mr. von
Goell, of course, called the Springer.<



2013/2/23 Bled Welder:
>> Rainbow, Slothrop plays Pokler chess for a short paragraph, before Pokler
>> points a Luger "as big as a house" ("And it's about to set sail....") at the
>> pig's head.  Slothrop plays chess by superstition, which is funny but
>> senseless enough.  Obsessed with protecting his knights.  What's the two
>> Springers there.  Do they just spring, the knights, and Snuggles made a
>> Company out of their action?  Is that it?
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