Published October 24th 2023
Written By Mary Laube
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Long Long Game Game combines both play and humor to deliver a chilling memento mori of her and our inevitable doom to expire. Humor, however, is not merely a flavor to make the truth more palatable, it is a quality that emerges by disrupting the expected order of things, and is essential to one of Mann’s most daring contemplations: is it possible to undo our own mortality by sidestepping time? Breaking order re-orients our relationship to our place in the world. Engaging in meditative actions changes our relationship to time. In doing so our perception becomes pliable. To think of time as anything other than a rigid cadence driving us forward is impossible in a world where the clock is considered the sole vehicle for moving moment to moment, and as sole authority on how we measure progress. Merging both the lighthearted and the laborious Mann unravels our relationship to our own mortality by disrupting our expectations of language and meaning.