pataphysical

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1. Relating to pataphysics.

   Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home

   1969, Lennon–McCartney, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles

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   [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.

   1983, Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale Research, →ISBN, page 201

   I have argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form and application.

   1995, Esther N. Goody (Goody), Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and Implications of the Social Bias in Human Intelligence, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 276

   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.

   2012, Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN