“The reader of these pages should not look for detailed documentation of every word.  In treating the general problem of culture, one is constantly obliged to undertake predatory incursions into provinces not sufficiently explored by the reader himself.  To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me.  I had to write now or not at all.”

                     Johan HuizInga;  Home Ludems: A Study of the Play Element in Culture  (1971)