10/09/07 · Half-Crazy
Finally he has no respect for any version of thinking that can be embodied in a computer´s circuitry. The more he has to do with computing, the more it seems to him like chess: a tight little world defined by made-up rules, one that sucks in boys of a certain susceptible temperament and turns them half-crazy, as he is half-crazy, so that all the time they deludedly think they are playing the game, the game is in fact playing them.
Youth, J. M. Coetzee