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Thread #106042   Message #2192706
Posted By: Bill D
13-Nov-07 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: Getaway 2007
Subject: RE: Getaway 2007
Obscure metaphysics? Sure here you go 'Pataphysics. (Google for LOTS more)

"..the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments" (Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, II, viii). Raymond Queneau has described 'pataphysics as resting "on the truth of contradictions and exceptions."

from memory: (I once owned a copy of :"The Evergreen Review", in which 'Pataphysic was introduced to the West) "Pataphysics lies as far beyond metaphysics as metaphysics does beyond physics...in one direction or another."