The Ludic Frame

The Ludic Frame:
 
Because it is a good game. Got
rules   a substantial part of which
may be learning them as I play—
ooops, oooh,  damnit,:superseding
or  reformatting, reconfiguring explicit,
obviouscommon-sense we all know
and love,  admonishing  each other,
shaking a finger to warn,  conspire
to uphold. Ludic.    In play.
 
Liberal Art  Converse Action.
“What unlike things must meet
and mate” (Melville)  The practice
of dialectic can’t even begin until
some one gets hurt. Not your sticks
& stones hurt, of course not.  Bells
& whistles border violations. Home
land Insecurity incursion. Hands
across the I’ll. An enemy  as good
as a Buddha and you got to lovem
or forgetaboutit.
 
Liberal Art II   Not for liberals. No
liberals need apply.  Conservatives
neither—holding on, holding on to
what they got.  Beyond the Goodies
& the Weasels, the rational & the
irrational, logic & illogic, dreams &
waking life, offense & defense, common
sense, nonsense, &  no sense at all,
beyond the symbolical & the diabolical,
3 little pigs & BB Wolf …
 
Liberal Art III.  Is there a satan in the
house?  Accuser, adversary, joker, jester,
clown, trickster – someone to put IT in
play?   IT, I said. Do I always got to be
spelling IT out for you?  Daring  to disturb
the universe? Eat a peach?  (Wait’ll they
get a load of this!)  Thank god  for it then ,
how else get a wiggle on?. Raise the
dead? 

xxxooo, Presbyter