baths of the Western Front in 1918 and 1919, they 
encountered the Volstead Prohibition Act. It was the social and 
political recognition that the war had fraternalized and 
tribalized us to the point where alcohol was a threat to an 
individualist society. When we too are prepared to legalize 
gambling, we shall, like the English, announce to the world the 
end of individualist society and the trek back to tribal ways.

     We think of humor as a mark of sanity for a good reason: 
in fun and play we recover the integral person, who in the 
workaday world or in professional life can use only a small 
sector of his being. Philip Deane, in Captive in Korea , tells a 
story about games in the midst of successive brainwashings 
that is to the point.

          There came a time when I had to stop reading those