\u201cThe world is so full of a number of things: I\u2019m sure we should all be as happy as kings!\u201d So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th century author and poet, in his \u201cChild\u2019s Garden of Verses.\u201d <\/p>\n
(Indeed, making things rhyme by having them \u201csound\u201d the same became a basis for poetry, which shifts intellectual meaning off to how the words \u201csound\u201d when spoken. When you think about it, it\u2019s a little weird. But that\u2019s how much of the world is constructed. Seeming can easily become \u201cthe way things really are\u201d without really thinking about them.) So much of what we do is play! I wrote a book about play many years ago. <\/p>\n
But back to Stevenson\u2019s dictum: I\u2019m reading a dictionary of laws, rules, many of which are really eponyms\u2014which have the force of some scholar\u2019s name attached\u2014 not that this guarantees that the law or rule is correct, but it gives it a sheen of truth. In fact the one who espoused that rule might have made it up, as if to \u201cpull it out of a hat\u201d (by sheer chance or worse, by cockeyed notion), It\u2019s a form of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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