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sense of spiritual confidence and Christianity play with the
games and sports of his time. Play goes with an awareness of
huge disproportion between the ostensible situation and the
real stakes. A similar sense hovers over the game situation, as
such. Since the game, like any art form, is a mere tangible
model of another situation that is less accessible, there is
always a tingling sense of oddity and fun in play or games that
renders the very earnest and very serious person or society
laughable. When the Victorian Englishman began to lean
toward the pole of seriousness, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw
and G. K. Chesterton moved in swiftly as countervailing force.
Scholars have often pointed out that Plato conceived of play
dedicated to the Deity, as the loftiest reach of man’s religious
impulse.
Bergson’s famous treatise on laughter sets forth the idea