What does pataphysical mean?
Pataphysical means Relating to pataphysics..
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Relating to pataphysics..
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home
[Fargue] couples a bent for discovery with a flair for creating a style suited to these astonishing circumnavigations, with their uncertain, hilarious or deceptive endings, to these ambiguous "dead ends cluttered with butterflies" where we observe the pataphysical creation of imaginary memories.
I have argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form and application.
This contrast between an earyl bpNichol who often used the liber the liberationist rhetoric of neo-Freudian psychotherapy to forumlate his poetics and Nichol who was part of The Four Horsemen and the creator of numerous pataphysical and conceptual texts contributes to a current tension within Nichol scholarship.
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Pataphysical means Relating to pataphysics..
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Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home
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