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Consulting Resources
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It is always play...
The urge to be first has many forms of expression as society offers
opportunities for it. The ways in which men compete for superiority are as various as the prizes at stake. Decision
may be left to chance, physical strength, dexterity, or bloody combat. Or there may be competitions in courage and endurance,
skillfulness, knowledge, mastering and cunning. A trial of strength may be demanded or a specimen of art. A sward has
to be forged or ingenious rhymes made. Questions may be put demanding an answer. The competition may take the
form of an oracle, a wager, a lawsuit, a vow or a riddle. Be in whatever shape it comes, it is always play, and it is
from this point of view that we have to interpret its cultural function.
- Johan Luizinga
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