'Pataphysics, was Re: [ADS-L] Something Borrowed ...

[Robin Hamilton]

> Alfred Jarry's 1888 publication Les antliaclastes: Drame en trois actes,
> Collège de 'pataphysique, uses the term three times:

Indeed, Stephen.  The execrable Pere Ubu was one of the less salubrious
graduates of that institution.  We prefer to be remembered for the rigorous
research of Professor Faustroll:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5i6sgRsGQYsC&pg=PA17&dq=Professor+Faustroll&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=Omz9SpadFo-cMpbAjfsO#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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Robin

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