antedating "pataphysics"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has 1945.

1934 Regis Michaud _Modern Thought and Literature in France_ (N.Y.: Funk &
Wagnalls) 184 [GB snippet view]: Jarry invented what he called
"pataphysics"....He defined "pataphysics" as "the science of imaginary
solutions, an exact science and a liberal art."

Jarry would know how to fix the deficit. But he's dead now.

JL

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