<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>".... what life is, when it is beautiful and happy, a game."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>'Finite and Infinite Games' by James P. Carse, Episcopal priest, is a favorite of mine. Read it again this spring.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jul 27, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Richard via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">I just read Journey to the East last week and quoted it to the softball team that I help coach in thanking them for playing:<div><br><div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East; "But no account of David can prove to me that life is not just a game. That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy- a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it prettier." P 72</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dick</div><br>Richard H.T. Alton 166 N. Humphrey Ave, Apt, 1N
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