chiggerbit wrote:I think we're being gamed here and now. Why capitalize "Exquisite Corpse" otherwise, except to draw attention to the term?
Ridiculous. It is called poetic license.
"Exquisite Corpse" is the proper name of the Surrealist game. Capitalizing it is like capitalizing the "c" in "Clue" or the "m" in "Monopoly". Google it and you'll see plenty of the same. Just to save you some effort, here's a link to "Breton Remembers" where EC is capitalized.
Go back and read this passage again, people, and decide for yourselves if it doesn't look at first as if treppenwitz is referring to Duncan's body--unless you already had knowledge of the game.
"...the post-Duncan period has exposed the moral and intellectual (to say nothing of artistic) bankruptcy of the conspiracy subculture and the entire blogosphere, especially viz. the ritual desecration of a woman's Exquisite Corpse in the furtherance of personal agendas..."
I have little doubt that treppenwitz is trying to draw us into his/her game.
well, I'd bet it'd trace to a Tor outroute. but I wouldn't think there's any hostile intent or any reason to get too upset about anything. it's a game but it's also a piece of shared artistic creation which as I said, could be a life. EC is not exactly a "game" even, they just liked calling all sorts of activities games, it's more play than game but I don't want to get bogged down in semantics. what about the sig chigger? I didn't find any such actual url but maybe I didn't look enough.
another stop on this detour that makes me want to cry a lot:
One might even have tried to survive death, as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy.
Yet within the confinement of a tower, similar to a closed system in which entropy thrives... If one does not open their system, the energy will slowly degrade, till their is nothing more than a body of random disorder and one tries to find their image in the mirror and can't, a moment of nearly pure terror.
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I'm not saying there's anything wrong if people clearly saw this reference as being to a "Surrealist game", but I'd just like to know how many people caught it as that. Am I really the only one who didn't?
