User:Ssstephen/Reading/Deep Play

Republished in Daedelus, Fall 2005. Originally published in the same journal, Winter 1972.

trapped … look … probing feel … vaguely disembodied … "away" … you are real … bemused … expose … secluded … secrecy … without attracting attention … the superorganism came instantly apart as its components scattered in all directions … everything was dust and panic … northward … looking for … found … seeing … double take … an impassioned description … barely communicated … looking … in the eye … to study culture … to tell … we had not seen … bewildered … no longer invisible … attention … interest … knew … small detail by small detail … only watching … mimicked … the underworld … called … ask us … extraordinariness … accepted … we were quite literally "in." … opened up … informants … caught, or almost caught … rapport … acceptance … penetrate … immediate, inside-view … subjects … emotional explosion, status war, and philosophical drama … inner nature I desired to understand.