{"id":42099,"date":"2014-12-10T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42099"},"modified":"2014-12-10T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:48:13","slug":"an-english-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42099","title":{"rendered":"An English game"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — image and Sotheby’s cataloguing via Michael Robinson ]
\n.<\/p>\n

Carl Jung<\/strong> told his friend Sir Laurens van der Post<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

One of the most striking testimonies to the quality of the English spirit is the English love of sport and games in a classical sense and their genius for inventing games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Exempli gratia:<\/p>\n

\"Pooh<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Catalog entry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shepard, E.H.
\n“FOR A LONG TIME THEY LOOKED AT THE RIVER BENEATH THEM…”<\/p>\n

Illustration for Chapter six of ‘The House at Pooh Corner,’ the episode “in which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in.” The game is ‘Poohsticks.’ Sold this morning: \u00a3314,500 (US$492,727) <\/p>\n

Shepard, Ernest H. (10 December 1879 \u2013 24 March 1976)
\n188 by 148mm, original ink drawing,
\nsigned “EHShepard” lower left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know the game, here’s the relevant excerpt from The House at Pooh Corner<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Pooh had just come to the bridge; and not looking where he was going, he tripped over something, and the fir-cone jerked out of his paw into the river. \u2018Bother,\u2019 said Pooh, as it floated slowly under the bridge, and he went back to get another fir-cone which had a rhyme to it. But then he thought that he would just look at the river instead, because it was a peaceful sort of day, so he lay down and looked at it, and it slipped slowly away beneath him, and suddenly, there was his fir-cone slipping away too.<\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s funny,\u2019 said Pooh. \u2018I dropped it on the other side,\u2019 said Pooh, \u2018and it came out on this side! I wonder if it would do it again?\u2019 And he went back for some more fir-cones. It did. It kept on doing it. Then he dropped two in at once, and leant over the bridge to see which of them would come out first; and one of them did; but as they were both the same size, he didn\u2019t know if it was the one which he wanted to win, or the other one. So the next time he dropped one big one and one little one, and the big one came out first, which was what he had said it would do, and the little one came out last, which was what he had said it would do, so he had won twice \u2026 and when he went home for tea, he had won thirty-six and lost twenty-eight, which meant that he was \u2013 that he had \u2013 well, you take twenty-eight from thirty-six, and that\u2019s what he was. Instead of the other way round.<\/p>\n

And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. But they played with sticks instead of fir-cones, because they were easier to mark.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — image and Sotheby’s cataloguing via Michael Robinson ] . Carl Jung told his friend Sir Laurens van der Post: One of the most striking testimonies to the quality of the English spirit is the English love of sport and games in a classical sense and their genius for inventing games. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,133,53,526,529,852,436,855,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-book","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-games","category-meditation","category-psychology","category-tao","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42105,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099\/revisions\/42105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}