Sublime

The Nows note that with infinite lives, they can do all they can imagine. They will have an infinite number of careers, they will marry an infinite number of times, they will change their politics infinitely. Each person will be a lawyer, a bricklayer, a writer, an accountant, a painter, a physician, a farmer. The Nows are constantly reading new bo

The rule-making capacity of infinite players is often challenged by the impingement of powerful boundaries against their play—such as physical exhaustion, or the loss of material resources, or the hostility of nonplayers, or death.

Infinite play is inherently paradoxical, just as finite play is inherently contradictory.

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

a world of near-constant flux, play becomes a strategy for embracing change, rather than a way for growing out of it.

The joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.