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Just as Lyotard implies that such conjugality of revolution
can erase the temporality of difference, so also does Jarry
argue that the physicks-stick is a crank-shaft for a timemachine,
whose syzygy reveals that "there are neither nights
nor days," neither systole nor diastole--no "pendulum
movements" (1989:103), only this intense instant, atemporal
and libidinal. As Jarry argues: minus sign is ferninine;
plus sign is masculine--"[f]or the Geometer, these two signs
cancel each other out or impregnate each other, and there
resultsC...]their progeny, which becomes[ ...] zero, al1 the
more identical because they are contrary" (1965:252).
Daumal implies that such a s ~zs~ia repeats an Eastern
intuition, insofar as the equation of this and not-this
resembles what the Hindu cal1 Advaita--the negated duality,
in which "To know & = to know (Everything - X)" (l993:3l ).
While "[gletting this idea into your head will help you get
a firm footing in ['IPataphysics" (311, such an idea has
often evoked only the mystical vulgarism of the New Age, in
which the likes of Capra and Zukav can now popularize the
similarity between the taoist mysticism of the East and the
quantum mechanics of the West (so that, for example, the
ambiguity between yin and yang now offers an oriental
metaphor for the ambiguity between particle and waveform).
For Daumal, the absurdity of such extremes and their