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'~~otardescribes the turning-bar in a manner
that recalls the physick-stick, insofar as both types of
line-segment spin around their own axis according to a
non-Boolean logic in a non-Euclidean space--"a movement
yielding the following three properties:
the rotation takes
place on al1 the axes without exclusion, the central point
is itself displaced over the segment in an alestory way,
finally it is equally displaced in the supposed neutral
spacen and "[tlhus a surface is engendered, which is nothing
other than the labyrinthine libidinal band" (1993:15).
'O~aurnal argues that , " [ 'pl ataphysical laughter"
denotes an awareness of absurdist dualities--"it signifies
the subject's headlong rush toward its opposite object and
at the same time the submission[...]to
that law of becoming
according to which laughter is begotten" (1995:28-29). As
Sandomir argues:
"we inquire into laughter solely in terms
of s scientific explanation, and, what is more important, we
inquire into seriousness just as we inquire into
explanations--solely because seriousness and explanation
botb possess a ['lpataphysical stigma" (1960b:176).