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There is a certain agreeable occupation of mind which from its having no distinctive name I infer is not as commonly practised as it deserves to be; for indulged with moderation, as for say through some 5 or 6 percent of one's waking minutes it is most refreshing. Because it involves no purpose save that of casting aside all active purpose, I have sometimes been half inclined to call it reverie with some qualification; but being for a frame of thought so antipodal to vacancy and dreaminess any such designation would be too excruciating a misfit. It is Pure Play. Now Play, we all know, implies a lively exercise of one's powers. Pure Play has no rules, except this very law of liberty. It bloweth where it listeth. It has no purpose but recreation. It may take the form of