Each moment is not the beginning of a period of time. it is the beginning of an event that gives the time within it its specific quality. For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. there can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labor.
An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose of filling work with time. work is not an infinite player’s way of passing time, but an engendering possibility. Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future, but moving toward a future which itself has a future.
Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.
For the finite player in us freedom is function of time. We must have the time to be free. For the infinite player in us time is a function of freedom. We are free to have time. A finite player puts play into time. An infinite player puts time into play.
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