The principle of universal equivalence and the conversion of opposites reduces the world in its pataphysical reality to particular cases only. Patapysics preaches no rebellion and no acquiescence, no new morality nor immorality, no political reform nor reation and certainly no promise of happiness nor unhappiness. Pataphysics is, in aspect, imperturbable. Jarry ws regarded by most of his contemporaries as a joker or a lunatic. Pataphysics has nothing to do with humor or with the kind of tame insanity psychoanalysis has drummed into fashion.
Life is, of course, absurd, and it is ludicrous to take it seriously.
Only the comic is serious. The patapysician, therefore, remains entirely serious, attentive, imperturbable. His imperturbability gives him anonymity and the possivility of savoring the full pataphysical richness of life. No difference in value, only in state, exists between ordinary men and those who are consciously aware of the pataphysical naure of the world, including themselves. The College of 'Pataphysics is no better and no worse than the French Academy or than the Hilldale Garden Club Men's Auxiliary Committe of Three on Poison Ivy Extermination.