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  • jasper - as an adjective

    July 8, 2007

  • Nice!

    July 10, 2007

  • "I played on boards whose squares changed in the course of a single game. They were made of squares of darker and lighter sand sprinkled on the board. In the course of the game the wind would blow the sand about, into long patches run through with different colours, until the board became a whirl of darker and lighter twists, reminiscent of the jaspé bindings of books come to life in dreams; and the pieces would pick their way through them, before crumbling and blending in with the sand of the squares."

    - The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland, p 128 of the Dalkey Archive paperback

    June 13, 2011

  • See jaspé: A fabric with an arrangement of fine stripes formed by light, medium, and dark shades of a given color.

    August 18, 2011