A meme wot I made about
#backgammon. The text is from "The Backgammon Book" by Jacoby and Crawford. The quote is by Georges Mabardi.
"The perfect backgammoner? Why, every day on the terrasse of the Cafe Bellevue, overlooking the blue Mediterranean - in Alexandria, my home -- I have seen hundreds of perfect backgammoners, playing all day long.
From the cradle to the grave, Egyptians play backgammon, the game of the Great Pharaohs. They play well, they play rapidly, they play quietly; they smile, and talk a little and they never complain of their luck. They smoke their nargules and drink their cafe turc. They believe that "luck' is the just, the inevitable, reward of the skilfull."
Vanity Fair: Backgammon has been played in Egypt for 30 centuries! (A reference to Senet which is in the same family of race games as backgammon.)
(Photo of the backgammon players is not mine)