"In Mount Analogue, which tells of a journey up a mountain whose 'summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them,' the allegorical landscape, with its riddles and internal logics and gnom...

Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry's posthumous novel, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, f...