Carl
Maria von Clausewitz on, in the first paragraph, the consequences of
rapid mutual improvisation, and in the second, table chatter.
I
changed the word 'war' for 'game or gaming'.
The
italics are his, he barely uses them for the whole book, then spews
them all out in the space of one paragraph.
“But
wild as the nature of gaming is it still wears the chains of human
weakness, and the contradiction we see here, viz.
That man seeks and creates dangers which he fears at the same time,
will astonish no-one.
If
we cast a glance at gaming history in general, we find so much the
opposite of an incessant advance towards the aim, that standing
still and doing
nothing is quite plainly the
normal condition of a
table in the midst of a game, acting, the
exception.”
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