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I am a retired lawyer living near [[Crestone, Colorado]] who now sells used books. I have a website [http://www.redbaud.com Redbaud.com] which offers information about books with some other links. It is especially useful for locating books. See [http://www.basic-process.org Basic-Process.org] for a wiki spin-off which I created.
Dear Wikipedants!
Thank you for the notification of the appearance of the London Institute of
Pataphysics in your scholarly enterprise! I (we) have no objection to your
using material from the LIP section of the Atlas Press website....
However, I should like to add a few comments to the discussion. I am
probably not sending this to the correct place so would be grateful if you
would post it there.
Firstly, I am surprised there is no mention of the College de Pataphysique
in the Wikipedia. A more venerable institution than the Institute it has
been publishing, without fail, a quarterly magazine since 1950, an amazing
achievement and one which should make evident once and for all that
PATAPHYSICS IS NOT SIMPLY A JOKE! The London Institute is affiliated to the
College along with around a dozen others worldwide.
Members of the College included Queneau (an encyclopedist, among
other things!), Ernst, Leiris, the Marx Brothers, Cortazar, Duchamp,
Picabia, Fontana, Ionesco, Dubuffet, Jorn, Arnaud, Vian, Ferry, Perec,
Prevert, among many others. Its current membership numbers around 1000,
amidst whom can be found Arrabal, Eco, Baudrillard etc. The College has a
rather small and poorly maintained website at: pata.obspm.fr
The article on Pataphysics in the English section of the magazine is
pataphysical. Which leaves me free to disagree with most of it! (and
Faustroll has two "l"s by the way). It's no worse than many, and not as
good as some. The LIP is shortly to publish a book of Definitions and
Citations of Pataphysics from 69 authors from 1888 to the present day.
The article on Pataphysique in the French section is incorrect in several
respects. In particular the third paragraph. In which I point out these
factual errors:
The College was founded in 1948, Alfred Jarry died in 1907! He therefore
had nothing to do with its foundation (except inspirational).
The Cahiers were the first of four series of the College's magazine, and
ran from 1950-1957, and were therefore not published by Jarry either. The
Oulipo, originally a sub-commission of the college was founded in 1960 and
its first writings constituted issue 17 (december 1961) of the "Dossiers",
the second series of College publications.
My French is not up to correcting this article but I can contact colleagues
in France to do so if required.
Best wishes
Alastair Brotchie
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