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| About the Exquisite Corpse: Former Editor John O'Leary ('03) was kind enough to email us the following response to our question about the name and history of the ritual. This should once and for all silence those propogators of "the elusive crypt". Besides, the corpse website is kinda freaky... |
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| The ritual you're thinking of is, indeed, called "Exquisite Corpse." Exquisite Corpse actually has a very long and interesting history- it was brought to spectator by (the legendary) Caroline Fredericks, who was editor before the older Reifschneider girl, who was editor before Jeremy before Meghan Hislop before Brittany before me. Anyway, she found out about it at some writing camp or something. It turns out it was invented by the surrealists (think 1920's paris, monkeys on tricycles, Dali, etc.) and gets its name from one of the lines in the first playing, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" which, if my french is any good, means "the exquite corpse drinks the young wine." More info at www.exquisitecorpse.com | |||||||