My father's spirit in arms! All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!... Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds,... That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In poker there is, of course, no attempt to disguise the aggressive element. Poker is a fighting game, a game in which each player... tries to get the better of every other player and does so by fair means or foul so long as he obeys the rules of the game. He may bluff or lie about his own strength, the object of the game being either to frighten the other players into believing that he has greater strength or else to prove it. Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me. Sam: Well, I don't think I can remember it.... Rick: If she can stand it, I can. Play it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »