The Ludic Frame: The Liberal Art

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 the explicit, common-
sense we all know and love:  admonishing
each other,shaking a finger, warning,
conspire to uphold. Ludic. In play.

Liberal Art  Converse Action.

“What unlike things must meet

and mate.”  The practice of dialectic
can’t even begin until some one gets
hurt. Not your sticks & stones hurt:
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
forget about it.

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, hairs on my
chinny chin chins.

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?  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?