Seriousness always has to do with an established script, an ordering of affairs completed somewhere outside the range of our influence. We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out . . . . seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility, whatever the cost to oneself.
– James Carse. 1986. Finite And Infinite Games.
Art: Katherine Helen Fisher. Finite and Infinite Games.
Cosmic Flotsam 