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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