Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. -- Dickens

Holding this [keyboard] in your hand, sinking back in your soft [deskchair], you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have [played] this [game] of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the [designer] for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true. -- Balzac

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/dickens-in-lagos.php?page=all

http://www.whatgamesare.com/2012/07/on-player-characters-and-self-expression-game-design.html