By Steve McCaffery
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In his works the clinamen manifests in the law of the particular homonym. His stories unfold as a kind of metagrammic ‘‘eternal return’’ of an eponymous sentence as a teleological one. Roussel’s use of what he calls ‘‘the device’’ (le procédé) consists in a core sentence whose words have a homophonic surplus-value and whose entire meaning can be altered by the substitution of a single letter. Roussel himself explains the device as follows: ‘‘I would choose two nearly identical words (suggesting the metagram).
Jarry himself defines it as ‘‘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’’ (in Shattuck ). Jarry launched the science in in his neo-scientific novel Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician. ’Pataphysics is defined there as ‘‘the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments’’ (in Shattuck ).
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