Diagram Exquisite Corpse

Question/Answer Folding Game

The Game of Listening

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Directions: As a group, choose an abstract concept one would like to make concrete. Each person will then secretly choose a recipe ingredient which they associate with this concept. Later, create a meal using these items, and eat it.

Players: HC, SC, AM, T

Concept chosen: “EVIL”

The Recipe
black liquorice
natty light beer
sweet pickles
zebra cakes

Report back: The dominant taste of Evil, perhaps surprisingly, is one of obscene sweetness. A rough, bitter undercurrent of the abyss follows closely at its tail however, and the general feeling is an unpleasant one. One can dimly intuit how one might develop a connoisseur’s taste for it, given enough time.

Players: JF, HC, T, AM, SC

THE FILM

QUESTIONS

What moon phase is it associated with?

SC: Full moon in September.
JF: The new moon.
HC: Waxing cresent.
AM: Waxing gibbous.
T: Half moon.

If this film was turned inside-out, what film would it be?

SC: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
JF: A “Little Baby’s Ice Cream” commercial.
HC: Schindler’s List
AM: A new Hollywood noir starring Al Pacino as a demented and vengeful detective.
T: Donnie Darko. The children are dead, touching through an alternate universe.

What character in this film is an avatar of a god?

SC: Zeus segmented himself into the three mustaches of this film.
JF: The dream – flashes of a monad.
HC: The children are avatars of the sun and moon gods.
AM: The mother.
T: The children are the gods of sweets, on which we feed during harvest.

Would this film be taxidermied successfully, and why?

SC: No, it is so full of holes that all the stuffing would fall out.
JF: No, it feels like it would have a tendency to rot…too effervescent.
HC: No, because if the inside is gone, it ceases to be.
AM: Yes. It would be stuffed with cotton candy and embedded in stained glass.
T: No, because the dreams of children are immortal.

Which object in this film is avian?

SC: The empty hole in the boy’s pillow.
JF: The tattered garments of the children.
HC: The biscuit donkeys on the cake carosel.
AM: The ice cream flower’s petals.
T: The first turkey.

What animal dreamed this film?

SC: A depressed peacock jailed inside a zoo.
JF: A feathered serpent masquerading as a penguin.
HC: A moon-dwelling cow.
AM: A calf.
T: The first turkey.

HC, JF, ADK

PLAYERS: AM, HC, JF, SC, T

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Directions: Player 1 draws a graph. Player 2 and player 3 come up with a measurement. Combine all three.

Players: AM, HC, JF, SC, T