Pater Familias

The Go Burglar, by William Pinckard, published in Go World, no. 15, Autumn, 1986 During the Edo period a go club, like a tea-ceremony room or a kyoka poetry meeting, was a place where rank, station, and sex were irrelevant: what amattered most was the ski…

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Before I start, I'd like to preface my remarks with gratitude: for my family, of course, my sister, Lynda, Uncle Jeff, Aunt Gretchen, their children, ... and their children, Sissy, the Verandah staff and residents, Lonelle and the staff at the Johnson Fun…

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