the Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse, 1943) takes place at an unspecified date, centuries into the future ...
... essentially the game is an abstract synthesis of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics ... the four lives, including that as Magister Ludi, oscillate between extraversion (and getting married: rainmaker, Indian life) and introversion (father confessor, Magister Ludi) while developing the four basic psychic functions of Analytical Psychology: sensation (rainmaker), intuition (Indian life), feeling (father confessor), and thinking (Magister Ludi).