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Einkehr an "in-turning," if not an Einblitz, an "inflashing"
(41): "[plerhaps we stand already in the shadow
cast ahead by the advent of this turningW--"[wJhen and hou
it [cornes] to pass after the manner of a destining no one
knows" (41) because "[tlhe turning of the danger cornes to
pass suddenly" (44)--as if by accident.
'Pataphysics
studies the exception of such accidents (in order to traffic
in the secret order of their conceits).
'Pataphysics regards the insight, the Einblitz, of such
accidents as a collision between two alien orders that
compare tbeir disparate events and exchange their desperate
images in a mutual clash of misprision.
For Marinetti, the
accident of such a clinamen becomes a dynamic synonym for an
epiphany, an Einkehr, that contributes to the cataclysm of a
self-propelled self--the automobilitv, not only of a device,
but also of its driver.
For Marinetti, the carcrash that
gives birth to Futurism merely enacts the anomalous
intensity of such an insight by providing the basis in the
future fer an imaginary philosopby of 'pataphysical
speculations. As Deleuze and Guattari suggest, "there are
itinerant, ambulant sciences that consist in followina a
flou in a vectorial field across which sin~ularities are
scattered like so manv 'accidents' (problems)" (1987:372).