by Huizinga—Homo Ludens: Man Playing . It’s about the role of play in human institutions, in human learning and so on. He goes through the world of Piaget and others. But play means again not connections, but intervals. When you have a wheel and an axle, you have play between the wheel and the axle. The interval is where the action is. It’s called play. When you are really in action, you are at play. So that the painter or an artist, when he is working at full capacity, is completely at play. Because the only way an artist can work is by exploring, inventing, playing and trying to discover all the potential in the situation. It’s done by play. Playing means, of course, though, a put-on; it depends on an audience. And this is something that all children understand, but it isn’t part of the educational establishment. Role-playing, the put-on, is a kind of sanity. Remember that group of people who got themselves
