“Mnemonists, people with freakish memories and no other virtues, were capable of playing dazzling games, dismaying and confusing the other participants by their rapid muster of countless ideas. In the course of time such displays of virtuosity fell more and more under a strict ban, and contemplation became a highly important component of the Game. Ultimately, for the audiences at each Game it became the main thing. This was the necessary turning toward the religious spirit. What had formerly mattered was following the sequences of ideas and the whole intellectual mosaic of a Game with rapid attentiveness, practiced memory, and full understanding. But there now arose the demand for a deeper and more spiritual approach. After each symbol conjured up by the director of a Game, each player was required to perform silent, formal meditation on the content, origin, and meaning of this symbol, to call to mind intensively and organically its full purport. The members of the Order and of the Game associations brought the technique and practice of contemplation with them from their elite schools, where the art of contemplation and meditation was nurtured with the greatest care. In this way the hieroglyphs of the Game were kept from degenerating into mere empty signs.”

Parker's Piece.

"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 368
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)

Dark Souls 3 Interview: "It Wouldn’t Be Right to Continue Creating Souls" https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-3-interview-it-wouldnt-be-right-to-cont/1100-6432425/ (November 20, 2015)

1970s, Remarks on Being Reelected (1972)
Context: The important thing in our process, however, is to play the game, and in the great game of life, and particularly the game of politics, what is important is that on either side more Americans voted this year than ever before, and the fact that you won or you lost must not keep you from keeping in the great game of politics in the years ahead, because the better competition we have between the two parties, between the two men running for office, whatever office that may be, means that we get the better people and the better programs for our country.

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

Original: (it) Game pad game pad, | game game pad pad, | game pad game pad, | game game pad pad, | Tarquini e Prevale si sfidano a colpi di joypad, | colpi di joypad, | colpi di joypad, | colpi di joypad, | colpi di joypad, | Gamepad la consolle virtuale. (from Game Pad – Tarquini & Prevale vs. Vodka)

Source: Tarquini & Prevale vs. Vodka – Game Pad https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Vodka-Tarquini-Prevale/Game-Pad-Tarquini-Prevale-vs-Vodka-Extended, Musixmatch.com, October 26, 2017