![]() ![]() ![]() The same is true for time: the game starts and ends at given signal”. It is rather a stepping out of "real" life into a temporary sphere of activity with a disposition all of its own” (2) and restriction expressed by Roger Caillois “The game must be taken back within the agreed boundaries. A second characteristic is closely connected with this, namely, that play is not "ordinary" or "real" life. One trait that the book highlights the character between freedom expressed by Johan Huizinga “Here, then, we have the first main characteristic of play: that it is free, is in fact freedom. The author himself has manifested the difficulties to define what play is, though every reader has a clear feeling of what playing provokes. (1) In 1997 the ambiguous character of play becomes the title of one of the most comprehensive studies on the topic, The Ambiguity of Play by Sutton-Smith. Play moves between different realms and definitions, reality and unreality, space and time, collective and individual, freedom and rules. ![]()
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