The most famous moments in Buddy's reminiscences ("please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: " and "were most of your stars out?" among many others) are insistently hopeful and playful ideas in a bereft mind.
This unsettlement stretches across species, and is at its most playful in A Midsummer Night's Dream – Titania's drug-fuelled enchantment with Bottom as an ass.
And she's playful in ways a traditional stanza wouldn't permit.
The onlookers are aghast, but the man refuses to be only playful, and in a few pages Hardy has him sell his wife and child for five guineas, notes and coins put "in a high remote pocket".
"I knew I didn't want the classic white/ivory shoe, so I started to look for something fun and playful but not in an overly bold color," she said. .
Bicycle wheels dotted the landscape like trees, and the setting, somehow a mixture of icy and playful, was like an industrial forest in which you suddenly found yourself smelling with your eyes and seeing with your ears.
Carl Walters does more inherently robust and playful things with clay in a vase glazed with sailboats; a plate featuring a hippo and dragonflies; and a small sculpture of a lion tamer.
It was light and playful despite being set in a Brooklyn police precinct, perfect comfort television.
McCay was interested in pushing formal boundaries, and playful self-referentiality plays a role in many of the strips; characters sometimes referred to McCay's alter-ego "Silas", or to the reader.
"Most of the places I shoot are extreme in some way," says Marding, who shot the extravagantly bold and playful Dinder House in Somerset, England, for a previous issue of T. "Mats's home has this amazing nothingness to it".
