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Behind the bamboo curtain shadows are indistinct;
paduk* stones rattle across the board like hail after rain has cleared.
Skill, great or little, is irrelevant here;
the pleasure is in the clinking of the stones.
* Paduk stones are the counters used in the game of Go.