The play-mood is labile in its very nature. At any moment “ordinary life” may reassert its rights either by an impact from without, which interrupts the game, or by an offence against the rules, or else from within, by a collapse of the play spirit, a sobering, a disenchantment.
Quotes about playing
The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that.
How do you interrogate a game? By playing it, and playing with it, critically and reflectively.
To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by the rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity.
