In this verbose and spiral (not circular) proposal for a new perspective on Pataphysics, Lindsann suggests that the (anti-)paradigmatic Pataphysician may not be Dr. Faustroll, but rather his arse-faced baboon servant, Bosse-de-Nage, who speaks only one phrase: “Ha ha!”
” Whether or not “Ha ha!” signifies anything, it is a catalyst that creates (My italics.) signification. “Ha ha!” acts like a vacuum, forcing conclusions from those surrounding it, and pulling them into it. The reasons and explanations that others create for it circle around this empty phrase but never penetrate it; it is an origin which is cut off, or better: an Anti-origin that has little relation to the ideas circling it, but which provides a centre (My italics.) around which they can orbit. And, it is important to note, “Ha ha!” the eternal empty phrase, changes its significance in each situation, it is ethereal, unformed; it is a constant potential for a new rationalization, a new signification. The significance (My italics.) of “Ha! Ha!” is that its significance (My italics.) can be constructed only after (My italics.) the utterance itself. In this way it sets itself up against the first principle of Metaphysics. Such might be a potential Nagean Pataphysics. “
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Open Letter Supplement to ‘Toward a Nagean Pataphysics’
Lindsann explains how 8.375 words are in actuality 4,989.5 words.
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