(contemporaneous and complaceaneous to V. but not mentioned) Ringolevio

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 Yore IT! Man Hunt!     Behavior: Games Children Play Time  Monday, Jan. 26, 1970    A few things to consider here: the anarchy & stoicism of children on the street, the anti-oedipal and anti-fascist (D&G) element of childrens' play on the street, the oedipal elements, the Grover vs. His Father themes that Pynchon continues to write about.    This book was a source for GR.    also check out http://profswife.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/the-lore-and-language-of-schoolchildren-book-review/     In the adult world, to win is everything, but children's games satisfy different requirements. The participants "seldom need an umpire," write the authors. "They rarely trouble to keep scores, little significance is attached to who wins or loses, they do not require the stimulus of prizes, it does not seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Indeed, children like games in which there is a sizable element of luck, so that individual abilities cannot be directly compared. They like games which restart almost automatically, so that everybody is given a new chance. They like games which move in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, the determining of which side shall start, are almost games in themselves."  Would-Be Hero. Some games, as the Opies note, are little more than statements of vitality, "made bearable, very often, only by the pride that the young take in the practice of stoicism." This is certainly the case with "kingy," a game the authors rate as the leading unofficial sport of British schoolboys (see cut). It is "a ball game in which those who are not He ["It" in the U.S.] have the ball hurled at them, without means of retaliation, and against ever-increasing odds, an element that obviously appeals to the national character. Anyone who is hit by the ball immediately joins the He in trying to hit the rest of the players."
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