From early childhood I remembered cloth books cut into three parts laterally, thus permitting a great number of combinations that gave wonderfully improbable images. Personne (Nobody) is a grown-up's fantasy. But the real bibliophiles (dead-serious collectors of these books) were outraged: “Cutting across the etching!” And bought only the examples “with suite” (the same etchings, pulled on Japan paper and uncut). There are nine etchings, a group of one-person “exquisite corpses” that form 729 images, believe it or not.

     –from Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 92.