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Nobody, this is a terrific post, and one of the best discussions of the Magic Circle concept I've read!

The thing about Huizinga's use of it, as I understand is, the rules are different from outside, but if anything *more* consistent, in order to maintain the playspace - which is why a lot of RP tends to the compulsive, to maintain the boundaries of that circle.

LL, otoh, like you said, regards those boundaries as selectively permeable - rather than rules like in football, it has rules like in that old Star Trek episode set on the 1920s world - Fizzbin's rules change as you play, the dealer making them up as you go along.

The usual term for this is "cheating"....

--Soph