puzzles
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Jul 1999
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1708

Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright
in each message remains with the person who wrote it.

Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original
archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than
retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.

==============================================================================

John Regehr — 08 Jul 1999, 14:30

I recently started reading Georges Perec's _Life, A User's Manual_.  This
appears in the preamble:

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate
truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary
game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzle-maker has made before;
every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and
strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every
blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been
designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

John

------------------------------------------------------------------------------