"pataphysical" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969, Lennon–McCartney, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:",
          "text": "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home",
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          "ref": "1983, Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale Research, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "[Fargue] couples a bent for discovery with a flair for creating a style suited to these astonishing circumnavigations, with their uncertain, hilarious or deceptive endings, to these ambiguous \"dead ends cluttered with butterflies\" where we observe the pataphysical creation of imaginary memories.",
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          "ref": "1995, Esther N. Goody (Goody), Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and Implications of the Social Bias in Human Intelligence, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 276:",
          "text": "I have argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form and application.",
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          "ref": "2012, Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "This contrast between an earyl bpNichol who often used the liber the liberationist rhetoric of neo-Freudian psychotherapy to forumlate his poetics and Nichol who was part of The Four Horsemen and the creator of numerous pataphysical and conceptual texts contributes to a current tension within Nichol scholarship.",
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        "Relating to pataphysics."
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          "ref": "1969, Lennon–McCartney, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:",
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          "ref": "1983, Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale Research, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "[Fargue] couples a bent for discovery with a flair for creating a style suited to these astonishing circumnavigations, with their uncertain, hilarious or deceptive endings, to these ambiguous \"dead ends cluttered with butterflies\" where we observe the pataphysical creation of imaginary memories.",
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          "ref": "1995, Esther N. Goody (Goody), Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and Implications of the Social Bias in Human Intelligence, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 276:",
          "text": "I have argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form and application.",
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          "ref": "2012, Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "This contrast between an earyl bpNichol who often used the liber the liberationist rhetoric of neo-Freudian psychotherapy to forumlate his poetics and Nichol who was part of The Four Horsemen and the creator of numerous pataphysical and conceptual texts contributes to a current tension within Nichol scholarship.",
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