A whimsical essay about the game of tag slides into a discussion of time, space, mathematics, astrology and the I Ching; so goes the mind of Kurt von Meier. With reference to games, Kurt states, "...what lifts such contests from the polarized, adversary dualism characteristic of mercantilist economy and the self-help of nation states at war, is some supervening awareness of the process of the interaction, a consciousness of the game itself as a game...In more formal terms this can be described as the deep-level oscillations of an imaginary value in mathematics."
