{Playing the Game [continued (5)]}[12th December 1987]

[Redbook4:216][19871212:2250e]{Playing the Game [continued (5)]}[12th December 1987]

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I am well aware that Victorian educators believed in the Game* of Life: Play up, play up, and play the game, and the value of the games-playing spirit in inculcating moral values appropriate to life in general. But we should remember that it was the English who introduced body-liners [sic] to cricket, between the [First and Second World] Wars.** I theorise that this was a symptom of that English cultural corruption which may well have been enormously accelerated by the Human losses of the Great War***; but that is another story – if one that raises interesting questions as to the real cultural nature of the British Empire and its civilisation.****

*[See last previous entry.]

**And apparently refused to change their umpire last time in England.... <880114>

***[1914-18, the First World War]

****Are sportsmen typical of U~ (xL)? <880307>

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