The artistically inclined delight in the Game because it provides opportunities for improvisation and fantasy.
Sarah Jeong, The Internet Of Garbage [Amazon, Local Library]
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Consider also:
- “Luckily for the readers of Vanity Fair, it will be he who is to explain, month by month, to its card-loving subscribers the best way to combine pleasure with profit at Pirate Bridge. I must not encroach upon his province of scientific explanations, but I should like to point out six major advantages of the game of Pirate: First: You can–if you are clever–avoid tying yourself up with a tedious or idiotic partner. Second: The hands which will work best together tend to come together as partners. Third: Fewer final bids are set back, this shortening the duration–and bother–of every rubber. Fourth: Every player is playing for himself. Four individual scores are kept, all independent. Fifth: You may feel inclined to blame someone for ‘accepting’ you, when the hand goes wrong; but you are not tied to him for a rubber. Sixth: It is a first-rate game for the man who fancies his own individual play, and has many of the best elements of poker.”
- “Pons are usually not planned in advance. You may, however, choose to place yourself where there are more opportunities for pons. There are times when it would be appropriate to plan a pon in advance.”
- “The would-be initiate must bring with him a certain measure of courage and fearlessness. He must positively go out of his way to find opportunities for developing these virtues. His training should provide for their systematic cultivation.”
- “These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise.”
- “If every life seems at times ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘inadequate’ it is only due to the cry of the immortal soul longing for larger opportunities and fewer limitations.”