"In the past, it has struck [Meyer Landsman, the main character] that, apart from homosexuals, only chess players have found a reliable way to bridge, intensely but without fatal violence, the gulf that separates any given pair of men." from Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
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