So there’s no place today for a Jarry? Either that or there’s so damn many Jarry’s suffocating us all that who needs yet another Jarry from 1898? Well yes. I don’t think “educated out of” is the correct phrase. Only with time and teaching do they learn to prefer the bad.” “'Twas brillig and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ETC” And therewith I confess, reserving all due respect and placing no blame, that it is in fact possible to have good sense and good taste educated out of a person. They have no taste: they can enjoy good writing as well as bad. And you’ll recall what was said in Twelve and a Tilly :: "We must become as little children, for they have no difficulty with Finnegans Wake. Faustroll, Pataphysician immortal.īy way of making some introductory remarks, Roger Shattuck,Proveditor-General Propagator for the Islands and the Americas, Regent (by Transseant Susception) of the Chair of Applied Mateology, GMOGG, says, “The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais” (FMF et al had already poured that concrete already so early that it didn’t almost even have a chance). Without any care for proportions Alfred Jarry courageously blended naiveté and sophistication, reason and absurdity and his desperate valiance made Exploits and Opinions of Dr. So now he eternally abides in his pataphysical etherity… from his groin down to his feet, in contrast, he was sheathed in a satyric black fur, for he was man to an improper degree.Īnd with the genius of his impeccable mind he created cosmic science of all sciences – Pataphysics: that is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter's limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics.Īnd armed with this powerful metascientific instrument, following in the footsteps of Ulysses, Gulliver, Pantagruel and Baron Munchausen, Faustroll daringly embarked on the fantastic jaunt across the universe of art that he has cleverly defined as “that which is the exception to oneself”, where he, “finding his soul to be abstract and naked, donned the realm of the unknown dimension”. the hairs of his head alternately platinum blonde and jet black, an auburn ambiguity changing according to the sun’s position his eyes, two capsules of ordinary writing-ink flecked with golden spermatozoa
Bodily Doctor Faustroll was a strange hybrid of Faust and troll.
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