[lit-ideas] Right to Play

Andy wrote:  In the end, all the stuff we do,
all the stuff we write, who's going to read it?  Who's going to care 
about it?  Newspaper articles, television shows, etc. etc. all go into 
archives for a while and then are purged.  Household names like Stalin 
and Mao will become surreal facts in history books. If your children 
cherish every word you write, what happens when they're gone?  The vast 
majority of authors are forgotten, utterly unknown.  The written word 
and beyond.  It's all crap, no matter what it is.


Eric: You'd love Milan Kundera's novel _Immortality_.

On the other hand, I don't think people really do anything because it 
grants them access to immortal groves. People love to play, and people 
love to play at their work, love to have fun playing at their work and 
making something good.

I was wondering what the opposite of play was.

It's not work. Work is definitely not the opposite of play.

The opposite of play is changelessness. Changelessness is the only state 
that doesn't permit play. (Torture, you might object, there's no play in 
torture. But torture is only the changlessness of pain, a subspecies of 
changelessness.)

Seriously chuckling,
Eric

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