It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be the sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition, which I have not the time to write down, due to the pestilence of dragons lately arrived.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then the dragons arrived.
"Ranged thus for battle on the sacred plain - on Kurukshetra - say, Sanjaya! say what wrought my people, and the Pandavas?" "When he beheld the host of Pandavas, Raja Duryodhana to Drona drew, and spake these words: "We're going to need the dragons against this lot."
It seems like both of my prior moves had already been done. Looking back, there was a whole swathe of entries that I had missed, even though I could have sworn I had been reading all the entries of the game from its inception. I shall now go hide in a hole in the ground.
On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg. "Dragons!" he gasped.