Academics have remarkably little l...

Academics have remarkably little leisure time. The single games we play are what Clifford Geertz calls "deep games," in the problematic essay forward Bali cited so frequently in this piece of poetry In order then to make time for things like genocide and the "New World Order" in his busy life, and in ours, Berkeley medievalist Peter Dale Scott has invented a poetic board game called Coming to Jakarta. Although it arises without instructions, most persons get the hang of it excellent quickly: the five-page bibliography in the back of the part and the marginal glosses and citations