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". . . and it may be that certain forms of play are an escape hatch for us from technology, a therapeutic hope, a little more methexis mixed with our mimesis, that is, participation as well as imitation. If we, all of us, had movie cameras and tape recorders and silkscreen, if we designed our own furniture, shaped our glassware, wove our own tapestries, set our own type, we might knit up the raveled sleeve of self. The rush of (a)esthetic theories upon us while we lie numb under the machines has divided us from our experience, has stylized our responses. We do not understand, but attitudinize. . . . Craftsmanship, the self-shaping of privacy, the health-giving labor, could be our way out . . ." - John Leonard