14 January 2023

an actual blog post, fresh as they come

Posted by Stefan Kac at 14:13
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Stefan Kac said...

Roger Caillois
trans. Meyer Barash
Man, Play and Games
(1961)

"it is not without significance that the Anglo-Saxon sport, par excellence, is golf, a game in which a player at any time has the opportunity to cheat at will, but in which the game loses all interest from that point on. It should not be surprising that this may be correlated with the attitude of the taxpayer to the treasury and the citizen to the state."
(p. 83)

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