Art, like games, is a translator of experience. What we have already felt or seen in one situation we are suddenly given in a new kind of material. Games, likewise, shift familiar experience into new forms, giving the bleak and the blear side of things sudden luminosity. The telephone companies make tapes of the blither of boors, who inundate defenseless telephone operators with various kinds of revolting expressions. When played back this becomes salutary fun and play, and helps the operators to maintain equilibrium. The world of science has become quite self-conscious about the play element in its endless experiments with models of situations otherwise unobservable. Management training centres have long used games as a means of developing new business perception. John Kenneth Galbraith argues that business must now study art, for the artist makes models of