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I’m giving these from memory: they might differ slightly from the versions described in the book. This is about what it might be like to see the future, and how that might change a game like billiards. What happens when you take this game that is all about brutally killing the player, what is billiards and change it so that the player cannot die? The first player then stands at the head of the table and drives the cue ball into the formation to break it apart. That he was a highly accomplished billiards player is well known. It is as well he did. Should you require a bespoke pool diner or custom pool dining table, we can supply the tables to you for installation at your location ( and can quote to install also if required ). Should you require a bespoke snooker diner or custom snooker dining table, we can supply the tables to you for installation at your location ( and can quote to install also if required ). And this time we also know everything about the rest of the universe as well: we don’t need to predict it forward, we’re just given all the data about how it evolves (in fact I think that without loss of generality we can assume an empty universe outside the box, which reduces the data volume considerably).

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