Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal - The Birth of Patapsychology
...Patapsychology begins from Murphy's Law, as Finnegan called the First Axiom, adopted from Sean Murphy. This says,and I quote,"The normal does not exist. The average does not exist. We know only a very large but probably finite phalanx of discrete space-time events encountered and endured." In less technical language, the Board of the College of Patapsychology offers one million Irish punds [around $700,000 American] to any "normalist" who can exhibit "a normal sunset, an average Beethoven sonata, an ordinary Playmate of the Month, or any thing or event in space-time that qualifies as normal, average or ordinary."...(cont.)
For the entire piece about the genesis of patapsychology, click HERE.
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Alfred Jarry,
pataphysics,
patapsycho;ogyy,
Robert Anton Wilson,
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