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(among other imaginary solutions) in order to fulfill a
panoply of desires that do not exist.
Irrational thinktanks such as these are as ephemeral as
a toy balloon with the word "thought" written upon it (so
that the owner of such "Pataphysical Hardware might
drarnatize the act of "pataphysics itself by inserting the
inflated balloon into a headband, literally producing a
comic-strip thought-bubble thst is in turn destroyed through
the use of an accompanying "thought suppressant"--a pin).
Such an allegorical destruction of reason characterizes the
whimsy of what McCaffery might cal1 a "'pataphysicalized
(f)unctionW (1980:12)--an exercise in "FUTILITY, which,
expressed as F t UTILITY becomes that[...]which
is ONE
LETTER BEYOND UTILITY" (12). The letter "Fu symbolizes the
excess of anomalous exception--"the play of FREEDOM[ ...]
WITHIN FUNCTION" (12): ie. what supplements the "unction"
of an otherwise reassuring, but inhibiting, purpose.
Rational - Geomancu
Canadian "Pataphysics suggests that the mythomania of
thematic thinkers is a kind of unconscious 'pataphysics that
takes place in what Wurstwagen calls "the oscillating noplace
of speculative geology" (1980:150). Wershler-Henry