14863 - After the attempt

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

After the attempt, everything had changed. Or rather the concept of death had taken on a new meaning. The moves had become acts and each one formed no longer an event, but a phenomenon. Before everyone thought that everything could be corrected. Because they were under the impression that no significant error had been made. With chess they learned about the irreversible moves. If the attempt had succeeded, which would be the facts that everyone took for granted? No one knew how to answer this question and for this reason they decided that it was now meaningless. But the trace was pinned onto Time like a wound and so history changed. A whole people would live a different life because of the wrong move. Because it had not noticed the Treaties which were not made to end the wars but to begin the next.