books.google.com - In Man, Play and Games, Caillois investigates the phenomenon of play, which he describes as "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest...http://books.google.com/books/about/Man_play_and_games.html?id=bDjOPsjzfC4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMan, play, and games