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the metaphysicians have found the meaning of their myths and announced those meanings without their narrative resonance.
What ideologists are concerned to hide is the choral nature of history, the sense that it is a symphony of very different, even opposed, voices, each nonetheless making the other possible.
Boom nice!
This is the contradiction of finite play in its highest form: to play in such a way that all need for play is erased.
The myth of the Buddha’s enlightenment has the same paradox in it,
They did not expect an infinite listener who joyously took their unlikeness on himself, giving them their own voice through the silence of wonder,
Those Christians who deafened themselves to the resonance of their own myth have driven their killing machines through the garden of history, but they did not kill the myth.
language entering history;
Infinite players are not serious actors in any story, but the joyful poets of a story that continues to originate what they cannot finish.
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101 There is but one infinite game.
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