Cupboards left open bring good luck.
Pluck a hair from a neighing horse: good luck.
When passing a police station, sneeze loudly to avoid misfortune.
–Benjamin Peret
NEW SUPERSTITIONS from Surrealist Games
What is the purpose of a necktie?
Air being let out of a balloon
Question Beverly Borton, Answer Michelle Tennison (2016)
What is Absurd Cannot Bind Us
How does one push aside the veil of illusion?
Riding a pogo stick into the past
Question Beverly Borton, Answer Michelle Tennison (2016)
Does a rock have Buddha nature?
A lit jellyfish
Question Sabine Miller, Answer Michelle Tennison (2015)
What is the source of all love?
The wind knows everything, touches my face.
Q&A Session with Paul Cunniff, Sharon Cunniff, Mary Ellen Binkele, and Michelle Tennison (1998)
What makes the stars shine?
I can’t hear you, are you saying “I love you?”
Q&A Session with Anna Binkele (age 8), Mary Ellen Binkele, and Michelle Tennison (2010)
Automatic Writing and Games of Chance
Playful procedures and systematic stratagems [provide] keys to unlock the door to the unconscious and to release the visual and verbal poetry of collective creativity.
— Mel Gooding, Intro to Surrealist Games, 1993
Through its inherent time-lapse and random nature, The Question and Answer Game creates an opening, a pregnant pause between question and answer. This pause, and the element of chance, are the keys to its inventiveness. Previously unrecognized thoughts are given an opportunity to jump in.
What’s beyond the threshold?
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor
Question Mark Harris, Answer Michelle Tennison (2016)
What is the best way to spot a fairy?
Leaves blowing in the same direction as the rain
Q&A Session with Mary Ellen Binkele and Michelle Tennison
When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven’t got the faintest idea what he’s going to say, and what he says astounds me with his wisdom. It is so much more than I know.
–Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
A Lit Jellyfish 
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