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October 12, 2013
'Pataphysics
"'Pataphysics (French: 'pataphysique) is a philosophy or media theory dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics."
A pataphor is an unusually extended metaphor based on 'pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that pataphysics exists "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality", a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from metaphor as metaphor exists from non-figurative language.
Related: "On November 24, 1948, Vernon Sullivan disappeared."
Vocabulary builder: Oulipo.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 12, 2013 08:27 AM