Reading Ulysses in Montana #144

Configurations of countless chameleons self-assembled into echelons of collaborative constellations beside zealous zebras so long in the tooth even elephants had forgotten where they had left their car keys.

`Pataphysics can take you a long way past the point of no return and then return you safely to the place you could no longer return from–whether or not you ended the sentence a preposition with. Or even if you had already used that device (or overused it as the case may be), you could still get away with it if ‘pataphysics were the controlling factor in subjunctive accumulations of accretions of crustaceous ground-swelling creatures along the great divide and conquer the multiplicative multitude adding to their numbers daily and getting the addition by subtraction in the most enervating way.

But then they divide and conquer the leg of lamb, lying with lions and dreaming of frustrated elephants. 


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14 thoughts on “Reading Ulysses in Montana #144

      • willowdot21 August 23, 2024 / 8:08 am

        I read it without breathing 💜

      • Rick Mallery August 23, 2024 / 11:53 am

        I think I wrote it without breathing. 😀

  1. Matthew Laney August 25, 2024 / 7:47 pm

    The Volcano underneath, or The Hills like White Vesuvius (Elephant style) beneath

    • Rick Mallery August 27, 2024 / 9:37 pm

      In-n-Out has nothing on that!

  2. camilla wells paynter August 28, 2024 / 6:05 pm

    Once again, you have enlightened me. Well, you and Wikipedia. I love that there’s a ‘Pataphysics Institute in Vilnius. That just seems right somehow.

    And now, because I serve the Limracken above all other masters. . . .

    There once was a pataphysician
    Whose syzygies brought on a schism.
    Though known to be meek, he railed “Pas ta physique!”
    To a paradox in the tradition.

    P.S. Princess wants a machine to capture the dreams of bumble bees!

    • Rick Mallery August 28, 2024 / 6:47 pm

      Moe thought ‘pataphysics was harsh, Till he channeled the queen of the marsh. Among the salt bracken, Moe told the Limracken, “The tooth will come out in the warsh.”

      • camilla wells paynter August 28, 2024 / 11:27 pm

        All hail the Queen of the Marsh,
        the lugubrious Vixen of Farce!
        She roved far and near to acquire Edward Lear,
        and now she’s after my arse!

        — Hugs, Moe

      • Rick Mallery August 29, 2024 / 6:03 am

        There once was a poet called Curly, Who liked to say don’t call me Surely. His brother was Larry, Who’d go on to marry, The sister of Shirley named Pearly.

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