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==Pataphor==
==Pataphor==
The ''pataphor'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''patáfora'', [[French language|French]]: ''pataphore''), is a term coined by writer and musician Pablo Lopez ([http://www.paulavion.com/pata.html "Paul Avion"]), for an unusually extended metaphor based on Alfred Jarry's "science" of 'pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that 'pataphysics existed "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality," a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from [[metaphor]] as metaphor exists from [[non-figurative]] language. Whereas a metaphor is the comparison of a real object or event with a seemingly unrelated subject in order to emphasize the similarities between the two, the pataphor uses the newly created metaphorical similarity as a reality with which to base itself. In going beyond mere ornamentation of the original idea, the pataphor seeks to describe a new and separate world, in which an idea or aspect has taken on a life of its own. [http://www.elclarin.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5947&Itemid=1189 (Spanish) Luis Casado, Pataphors And Political Language (El Clarin: Chilean Press)(2007)]
The ''pataphor'' Spanish: ''patáfora'', French: ''pataphore''), is a term coined by writer and musician Pablo Lopez ([http://www.paulavion.com/pata.html "Paul Avion"]), for an unusually extended metaphor based on Alfred Jarry's "science" of 'pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that 'pataphysics existed "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality," a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from [[metaphor]] as metaphor exists from [[non-figurative]] language. Whereas a metaphor is the comparison of a real object or event with a seemingly unrelated subject in order to emphasize the similarities between the two, the pataphor uses the newly created metaphorical similarity as a reality with which to base itself. In going beyond mere ornamentation of the original idea, the pataphor seeks to describe a new and separate world, in which an idea or aspect has taken on a life of its own. [http://www.elclarin.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5947&Itemid=1189 (Spanish) Luis Casado, Pataphors And Political Language (El Clarin: Chilean Press)(2007)]
Like ‘pataphysics itself, pataphors essentially describe two degrees of separation from reality (rather than merely one degree of separation, which is the world of metaphors and metaphysics). The pataphor may also be said to function as a critical tool, describing the world of "assumptions based on assumptions," such as belief systems or rhetoric run amok. The following is an example.
Like ‘pataphysics itself, pataphors essentially describe two degrees of separation from reality (rather than merely one degree of separation, which is the world of metaphors and metaphysics). The pataphor may also be said to function as a critical tool, describing the world of "assumptions based on assumptions," such as belief systems or rhetoric run amok. The following is an example.
