books, to stop practising Russian because with the study 
     of language the absurd and constant assertion began to 
     leave its mark, began to find an echo, and I felt my 
     thinking processes getting tangled, my critical faculties 
     getting blunted. . . . then they made a mistake. They gave 
     us Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island  in English. . . .
     I could read Marx again, and question myself honestly 
     without fear. Robert Louis Stevenson made us 
     lighthearted, so we started dancing lessons.

     Games are popular art, collective, social reactions  to the 
main drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions, are 
extensions of social man and of the body politic, as 
technologies are extensions of the animal organism. Both 
games and technologies are counter-irritants or ways of 
adjusting to the stress of the specialized actions that occur in