serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

* _ .. -- @ media / idea(s) / change(s) / theme(s) ? [:/] _


education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Joyce Carol Oates]: ... systematic cultivation of pain in the interest of a life goal: ... such a pain is less chosen or accepted than inseperably bound up with the combination of talent & obsession that drives some writers to write and some fighters to fight ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ