--- title: "1 Perfect balance Quotes By Rushdie Salman" description: "1 Perfect balance quotes by Rushdie Salman. Plus more from Rushdie Salman and more Perfect balance sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/rushdie-salman-110252_around-the-corner_the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-boar_2763310.jpg" --- > [“The moment I was old enough to play board games I fell in love with Snakes and Ladders. O perfect balance of rewards and penalties O seemingly random choices made by tumbling dice Clambering up ladders slithering down snakes I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rushdie-salman/the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-board-games-i-fell-in-love-with/) RUSHDIE SALMAN [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/rushdie-salman-110252_around-the-corner_the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-boar_2763310.jpg) ## More by Rushdie Salman > [“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rushdie-salman/throughout-human-history-the-apostles-of-purity-those-who-have-2/) Rushdie Salman > [“The moment I was old enough to play board games I fell in love with Snakes and Ladders. O perfect balance of rewards and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rushdie-salman/the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-board-games-i-fell-in-love-with/) RUSHDIE SALMAN ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perfect-balance/rushdie-salman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Perfect balance Quotes By Rushdie Salman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The moment I was old enough to play board games I fell in love with Snakes and Ladders. O perfect balance of rewards and penalties O seemingly random choices made by tumbling dice Clambering up ladders slithering down snakes I spent some of the happiest days of my life. When in my time of trial my father challenged me to master the game of shatranji I infuriated him by preferring to invite him instead to chance his fortune among the ladders and nibbling snakes. All games have morals and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures as no other activity can hope to do the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb a snake is waiting just around the corner and for every snake a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that no mere carrot-and-stick affair because implicit in the game is the unchanging twoness of things the duality of up against down good against evil the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuousities of the serpent in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see metaphorically all conceivable opposition Alpha against Omega father against mother here is the war of Mary and Musa and the polarities of knees and nose... but I found very early in my life that the game lacked one crucial dimension that of ambiguity - because as events are about to show it is also possible to slither down a ladder and lcimb to truimph on the venom of a snake... Keeping things simple for the moment however I recrod that no sooner had my mother discovered the ladder to victory represented by her racecourse luck than she was reminded that the gutters of the country were still teeming with snakes.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rushdie Salman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rushdie-salman/the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-board-games-i-fell-in-love-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/rushdie-salman-110252_around-the-corner_the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-boar_2763310.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/rushdie-salman-110252_around-the-corner_the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-boar_2763310.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/rushdie-salman-110252_around-the-corner_the-moment-i-was-old-enough-to-play-boar_2763310.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The moment I was old enough to play board games I fell in love with Snakes and Ladders. 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