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-{{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by Simon Sinek. Dreadful.}} }}The [[JC]] is indebted to  TED-talker extraordinaire {{author|Simon Sinek}} for the TED talk which introduced him to {{author|James P. Carse}}’s obscure but brilliant book {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}}, which provides the basic idea for this, Sinek’s own take on the subject.
+{{a|book review|{{image|Finite Game|jpg|{{br|The Infinite Game}} by Simon Sinek. Dreadful.}} }}The [[JC]] is indebted to  TED-talker extraordinaire {{author|Simon Sinek}} for the TED talk which introduced him to {{author|James P. Carse}}’s obscure but brilliant book {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}}, which provides the basic idea for this, Sinek’s take on the subject.
-And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering, if you just set Sinek’s book aside — it is one, in {{author|Dorothy Parker}}’s terms, to be ''thrown'' aside with great force — and immerse yourself in Carse’s [[Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility|magnificent original]]. To be sure, it demands much, much more work (it’s a short book, but boy is it ''dense'') but it is so worth it.
+And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering: if you just set Sinek’s book aside — it is one, in {{author|Dorothy Parker}}’s terms, to be ''thrown'' aside with great force — and immerse yourself in Carse’s [[Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility|magnificent original]] you will be far, far better served.
+To be sure, Carse demands much, much more work (it’s a short book, but boy is it ''dense'') but it is so worth it.
 If only Simon Sinek had taken the trouble to put in the necessary work to understand a gem he then spends 272 pages misrepresenting. For Carse’s hypothesis is subtle, deep and many-splendoured. Its continues to unfold on you, like it’s own infinite game, months and years after you first read it. I ''still'' find myself stumbling on its moments of clarity.