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The exquisite corpse game is played by a group of people who write a composition in sequence. Each person is only allowed to see the end of what the previous person wrote. The name is derived from a phrase that occurred when the game was first played in French, "Le cadavre exquis boira du nouveau vin." ("The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.") While initially sentences were constructed using the verbal method, poems and stories were later also written by it.

Later, perhaps inspired by children's books in which the pages were cut into thirds, the top third pages showing the head of a person or animal, the middle third the torso, and the bottom third the legs, with children having the ability to "mix and match" by turning pages, the game was adapted to drawing and collage. It has also been played by mailing the drawing or collage -- in progressive stages of completion -- to the players, when it is known as "exquisite corpse by airmail" (apparently regardless of whether the game actually travels by airmail or not).

Some have played the (graphic) game with a more or less vague or general prior agreement as to what the resulting picture will be, but this defeats the essentially surrealist nature of the game.

There have been variations on the original procedure, such as the Exquisite corpse wang-dang-doodle -- a type of very long, rearrangeable exquisite corpse invented by Ted Joans.

The game of exquisite corpse has been adapted to be done using computer graphics, the construction of surrealist object s, and even an adaptation to architecture has been proposed. Exquisite corpse films have even been made, at New York University for example.

"Totems Without Taboos," organized by the Chicago Surrealist Group at the Heartland Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, was the first exhibition of exquisite corpses in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in.

The San Francisco Cacophony SocietyThe Cacophony Society is "a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society. It was started by members of the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco. According to self-designated memb performed the Exquisite Corpse game using a theater full of people with banks of typewriter1910, could not have seen characters as they were typed. A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper. In the late 19th and the ss.

See also: Cut-up techniqueThe cut-up technique is a specialised literary form in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. At a surrealist rally in the 1920s, Tristan Tzara offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat.; Eat Poop You CatEat Poop You Cat (also known as I'pupiukat EPYC or Telephone Pictionary is a party game that has been likened to a cross between the telephone game and Pictionary. It is also considered a modern-day cousin of the Exquisite Corpse game. It is played with a; magazines, journals, and novels titled Exquisite CorpseExquisite Corpse is the name of a literary magazine edited by Andrei Codrescu (http://www. There are at least two novels called Exquisite Corpse One by Poppy Z. Brite, another by Robert Irwin. For general information, see also Exquisite corpse.