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- Author's profession: Royalty
- Nationality: japanese
- Born: April 29, 1901
- Died: January 7, 1989
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship...
A. Bartlett Giamatti