... the game in which each person adds a sentence to a story based only on the previous sentence, and when the wine bottles are empty the pages are passed to an Irishman who reads out the accumulated story in a velvety brogue."Sounds like fun.
... the game in which each person adds a sentence to a story based only on the previous sentence, and when the wine bottles are empty the pages are passed to an Irishman who reads out the accumulated story in a velvety brogue."Sounds like fun.
We used to play a lot to the "Cadavre exquis" when we were kids. It has been invented by the Surrealists around 1925, as a recreative activity.
ReplyDeleteIn 1931, a whole novel was written following the principle of the "cadavre exquis": The Floating Admiral. The contributors included G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox and Freeman Wills Crofts.
As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, "Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite solution in view—that is, he must not introduce new complications merely 'to make it more difficult' ... Each writer was bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for his consideration by his predecessors."
I really like this kind of games.
I used to play this game too as a child. The resulting text was often quite hilarious :D
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