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Episode 109: Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse

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The Infinite Game

i suppose, if we're being strict, we'd say that no game, even this sublime system of the eching, could icapsulate life simply because the map is not the territory. The infinite isn't contained in the game. It's the spirit that the game invites you to inhabit. Like anybody could play the eaching finitely or infinitely. But some games are built in a finite structure,. indeed, almost aod monopoly is finite, theer. While play lasts, there is no time. And that's the reminder, in a way, and that maybe these games are, just maybe, just symbols, symbols calling us to the fact that there is only one game,

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