Sublime

Surprise causes finite play to end; it is the reason for infinite play to continue.

Capacious

You can’t delve far into the question of what it means to be a finite human being, with finite time on the planet, before encountering the philosopher who was more obsessed with the subject than any other thinker: Martin Heidegger.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

The rules of an infinite game are changed to prevent anyone from winning the game and to bring as many persons as possible into the play.

distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons,

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

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