This was a big, unique and completely independent world. It permeated all aspects of life and influenced a soul creating a character. And though this world existed separately, it was fused with folklore, labour and domestic world, and they mutually enriched each other. This cross-fertilization is proof that diversity, variety, otherness helps to create an ethnic unity, while levelling destroys it.
Let's approach the world of games with the academic yardstick, mentally separate it into components, and arrange them on shelves, to classify. It will be a perfect scheme. It is possible to chart using different principles, but nothing will change. It will remain the same cold, lifeless. It is challenging to dismember the known to us entity without the risk of destroying it or becoming a fool. (Exactly as it happens with a child, who, trying to explain the charm of toy, disassembles and disembowels it.)
The magic disappears like smoke when they begin to look for the cause. The poetry disappears. The meaning disappears just like this when people start to talk more about something than work on it. Similarly, the game is only meaningful for its participants, but not for the audience (fan, too, is a player, he plays, but he has already played in a different game, feeding off the real game). Games are very different: for children and adults, male and female, single and shared, spring and winter, at home and on the street, noisy and quiet, helpful and harmful, athletic, intelligent. Some of these properties are often combined in one game. But what properties are typical for the game as such? No matter what you say trying to explain everything, there will always be something inexplicable and elusive. Perhaps above all inherent in the game is creativity feeding by interest, enthusiasm, experience, and the exact rules. People drop the game at once, as soon as it becomes uninteresting, in other words, uncreative. But the unwritten codes of games do not always let this, instead of pleasure and joy, instantly turn into a severe torment.
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