![]() The yin yang then wallowed in obscurity until 1995, when my Uncle Drew gave me a set of Pogs for my ninth birthday. The yin yang, I deduced, was a symbol of sex, something dark and mysterious I should stay away from. The cobra could be a sexual metaphor, since penises were snakes.There was another yin yang design in the sticker machine, this one with a cobra slithering out of the two smaller circles.A single sticker was ejected from the sticker machine between two pieces of cardboard.There were lots of symbols in the world that I didn't understand. The yin yang was an odd, eye-catching form made of starkly contrasted shapes that were familiar and also foreign: a circle with an S shape inside, separating a black side from a holographic silver side, then additional, smaller circles within those shapes, in opposite colors as the side they were on, creating more contrast. ![]() ![]() ![]() The now iconic yin yang symbol originated in 1991, when it presented itself to me in holographic-sticker form in a pizza parlor sticker machine. ![]()
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