games-player

I am a wretched games-player and will slink out of the room to avoid a game, any game, but one evening after dinner with friends and friends of friends, I was trapped into playing some card game or other something even the children could play, after a fashion.

“Playtime” | clusterflock 2008

It was such games-playing, and the sense it gave him of God the games-player, that made Nabokov the fundamentally happy man he was, as if he, supreme games-player in literature, had worked out the rules of the secret game of the world.

Gerry Canavan 2007

It was such games-playing, and the sense it gave him of God the games-player, that made Nabokov the fundamentally happy man he was, as if he, supreme games-player in literature, had worked out the rules of the secret game of the world.

Gerry Canavan 2007