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The Game Fair, a great celebration of the nature of British origin that is also organised in France (Chambord) and Italy (Lake Bracciano) is a suitable observation post to study the contemporaneous world. Its participants remember “Tricksters”, these ambiguous protean figures. Visitors of the Game Fair can pass easily from an unconditional enthusiasm for “ancestral traditions” (“really authentic” traditions, since they have been invented by themselves) to most audacious technological daydreams. Behind an apparent disorder the coherence of these representations rests on a restricted number of underlying ideas: wild nature as an utopic space where one can meet the “initiate” (the outstanding man, the aristocrat) who lies dormant in each of us; wild nature as a new Sunday space where goodness is practiced in small doses.