Preludes

These essays are clearly not about play as unseriousness not about fun and games a point that should be abundantly demonstrated by the reference to the death camps of the Holocaust. They are about the space the <I>Spielraum</I> necessary for the wheel of life to turn soulfully. Christine Downing's essays may be felt to function as a possible prelude to the play of a truly ludic imagination which like Buber's slow medicine quietly enters the soul working into the heart awakening a secret melody to be noticed only later. <I>Preludes</I> indeed!</P><ul>David L. Miller<br>Author of <I>Three Faces of God</i><br>and <i>Hells and Holy Ghosts</I>