toys, like klee

…Adorno’s Minima Moralia ascribes a splendid life to children’s toys only insofar as they step out of the system of exchange-values and return to a purely purposeless use-value.
The little trucks travel nowhere and the tiny barrels on them are empty; yet they remain true to their destiny by not performing, not participating in the process of abstraction that levels down that destiny, but instead abides as allegories of what they are specifically for.

- John Plotz, pg 228, “Objects of Abjection: The Animation of Difference in Jean Genet’s Novels,” 103, Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 44, No. 1, (Spring 1998)