In the opening book of The Histories, Herodotus writes: When Atys was king of Lydia in Asia Minor some three thousand years ago, a great scarcity threatened his realm. For a while people accepted their lot without complaining, in the hope that times of plenty would return. But when things failed to get better, the Lydians devised a strange remedy for their problem. The plan adopted against the famine was to engage in games one day so entirely as not to feel any craving for food ... and the next day to eat and abstain from games. In this way they passed eighteen years, and along the way they invented the dice, knuckle-bones, the ball, and all the games which are common. Why might Jane McGonigal have included this excerpt in her argument? In your Reader/Writer Notebook, make a prediction and explain why you think McGonigal would include this in her argument.