Totems Without Taboos

"Exquisite Corpse: Game of folded paper played by several people, who compose a sentence or drawing without anyone seeing the preceding collaboration or collaborations. The now classic example, which gave the game its name, was drawn from the first sentence obtained this way: The exquisite/corpse/will drink/the new/wine."

--André Breton

I found it amusing to discover that a seemingly innocent children's game I used to play could have such a subversive history.

Like seeing Alexander Calder's mobiles now adorning nurseries.