Archive for the ‘Encounter’ Category

Variations on the Spectator-Player Relationship. Part III

Saturday, September 29th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Encounter, Asymmetrical Relationship | No Comments »

Come on in. Expect to be startled and provoked. You have started down a yellow brick road to brains, brawn and love. Oz or bust. We've been on our way for several weeks, a rag-tag band of, as far as I ...

The Flexible Spectator-Player Relationship. Part II

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Unit Act, Encounter, Asymmetrical Relationship | 2 Comments »

The Spectator-Player model covers a broad range of experience. There are three tests for inclusion in this class: (1) Two actors in an encounter-relationship. (Note that the type of actor is not fixed; it can be one person or ...

Spectator-Player Relationship. Part I

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Posted in Unit Act, Encounter, Asymmetrical Relationship | No Comments »

Say a card game with seven players around a table. No chairs left. An eighth man, excluded from the central action, patrols the perimeter, watching and listening and gabbing. He is the kibitzer, the spectator, the gadfly, the superfluous person. ...