"Playland is a country whose inhabitants are busy celebrating rituals, and manipulating objects and sacred words, whose sense and purpose they have, however, forgotten. And we should not be amazed if, through this oblivion, through this dismemberment and inversion of which Beneveniste speaks, they free the sacred, too, from its link with the calendar and with the cyclical rhythm of time that it sanctions, thereby entering another dimension of time, where the hours go by in a flash and the days are changeless.
In play, man frees himself from sacred time and 'forgets' it in human time."
(Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History)
