New Study On Play With A Detour Through My Dissertation Pita is my philosophy daemon! Dear Surf Nerd, I’ve got some heavy surf-nerding for you this week. As promised, I put my philosophy hat on, grabbed the books off the shelves, got my little blue notebooks down too, and went to work on the topic of surfing and play. At first this was just going to be a mere exegesis of Eugen Fink’s Play As Symbol of the World (1960). It has since morphed into something more far reaching. But let’s start...