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

[Robin Hamilton]

I could always email Prof. Fletcher and ask.  I taught at Loughborough
University for twenty years (though not in the chemistry department), and
still [for my sins] live here, so there's a connection.

I'm not that well up on Jarry's development of 'Pataphysics -- would it be
fair to say that it began life around the Ubu plays, and was fully-formed in
the Faustroll text?

Is the TLS piece(s) online?

Robin

> I read Ubu and several other works by Jarry many many years ago, but had
> never encountered this tale before, and do not know how widely known it is
> among the well-informed, or even whether it is true.  Fletcher cites
> sources for Kelvin/Thomson's lecture, but not for the Jarry connection.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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