If you enter into a situation, you’re suddenly in the game. You have to keep that Hacky Sack in the air. When it falls down, you have to show disappointment and you have to start up the game again.
Evidence
Erving Goffman’s Expressive Order: Face and Presentation of Self (How Communication Works)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Small acts of decorum toward corpses matter more than practical logic — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 483; A live act that visibly falls apart can be the winning act — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 22