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Great Games of Thought

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An imagined portrait of Yi Sun-sin with a chest-length beard, wearing a black headband (mangeon) over a topknot and lamellar armour of small laced plates over a long robe.

An imagined portrait

Yi Sun-sin

Yi Sun-sin, who wrote down even his weeping

My heart is torn apart; I cannot write it all. I set it down afterward, roughly.

Game 11 · Reconstruction

Face to face

Marcus Aurelius
Aurelius, who wrote to himself to add nothing more to what happened
Game 11

Add nothing to what has happened. Do not tell yourself more than what you first saw.

Reconstruction

This person's life and ideas will be added here once fact-checking is complete.

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A room opening onto the sea and ships on one side and an army tent camp on the other; between them, at a long wooden table with notebooks open, sit a commander in armour and a curly-haired man in a red cloak, facing each other

Game 11·Yi Sun-sin×Aurelius

Why Write the Same Day Twice?