unflagging: ([f] We say the world has moved on)
[R. F.] ([personal profile] unflagging) wrote in [community profile] outofshadows 2013-01-04 08:17 pm (UTC)

Men are born for games and nothing else. Even a child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them.

In other words: you still win if you get a lucky hand.

But I'll take the red one.

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