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Roger Caillois

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Theorist cited by Lasch who argued that games attempt to substitute ideal conditions for the normal confusion of everyday life

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"By establishing conditions of equality among the players, according to Roger Caillois, games attempt to substitute ideal conditions for "the normal confusion of everyday life." They recreate the freedom, the remembered perfection of childhood, and mark it off from ordinary life with artificial bound"
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