Mason Hartman

“If classes were 'sorta boring,' was it because of the student or the teacher?”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“Instantly Nate realized that he couldn't prepare for class as in the past, 'where I could tune in for a minute, say something smart, earn my credit for the day and tune out.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“Who can say when subversive play will subvert its own rules? Sometimes a jester's wit might cut too close to the bone and the king would lop off his head. The uncertainty — that straddling of the boundaries of real and unreal — is a source of the peculiar emotional power of subversive play.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College