Naked Came the Manatee (Putnam, 1996) is a mystery thriller parody novel.Exquisite Corpse is a literary magazine founded in 1983 (later in online version from 1999) published by Andrei Codrescu.The credited author is the fictive 'Penelope Ashe', though it was written by twenty-four journalists led by Mike McGrady, with each author writing a chapter without any knowledge of what the others had written. Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 erotic novel written as a literary hoax to parody American literary trends of the time.Burroughs and Brion Gysin was influenced by Surrealism. Space and Time magazine builds a community exquisite corpse monthly on their website.The finished product is similar to children's books in which the pages were cut into thirds, the top third pages showing the head of a person or animal, the middle third the torso, and the bottom third the legs, with children having the ability to 'mix and match' by turning pages.ДЄnother variation of the exquisite corpse also called 'picture consequences' is Telephone Pictionary, a game in which players alternate writing descriptions and matching illustrations based on the previous step. The person is traditionally drawn in four steps: The head, the torso, the legs and the feet with the paper folded after each portion so that later participants cannot see earlier portions. Later the game was adapted to drawing and collage, in a version called picture consequences, with portions of a person replacing the written sentence fragments of the original. Henry Miller often played the game to pass time in French cafГ©s during the 1930s.ДЄn exquisite corpse drawing produced in four sections Besides himself he mentions Marcel Duhamel, Jacques PrГ©vert, Yves Tanguy and Benjamin PГ©ret as original participants. The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, ' Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.' ('The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.') AndrГ© Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends at an old house in Montparnasse, 54 rue du ChГўteau (no longer existing). Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least as early as 1918. Surrealism principal founder AndrГ© Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. This technique was invented by surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution.

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