Retrieved from "" * The "two players, one is light and one is dark" quote could refer to concept of Good & Evil, as that is the traditional archetypical portrayal of those forces. * Walt uses his special powers to win the game by influencing the roll of the dice, either consciously or subconsciously. * This may be a reference to the Kurt Vonnegut short story entitled, "The Barnhouse Effect" [1]. This story involves a professor that discovers how to manipulate traditionally chance-related events such as dice rolls using his thoughts. In a parallel to Einstein's concern over indirectly beginning the age of nuclear warfare, Barnhouse goes into hiding (from the U.S. military who want to use him as a weapon) while secretly teaching a protoge (the narrator of the story) the technique.