dance and fun? For fun or games to be welcome, they must 
convey an echo of workaday life. On the other hand, a man or 
society without games is one sunk in the zombie trance of the 
automation. Art and games enable us to stand aside from the 
material pressures of routine and convention, observing and 
questioning. Games as popular art forms offer to all an 
immediate means of participation in the full life of a society, 
such as no single role or job can offer to any man. Hence the 
contradiction in “professional” sport. When the games door 
opening into the free life leads into a merely specialist job, 
everybody senses an incongruity.

     The games of a people reveal a great deal about them. 
Games are a sort of artificial paradise like Disneyland, or some 
Utopian vision by which we interpret and complete the meaning 
of our daily lives. In games we devise means of nonspecialized