Cover of Cal Clement's 'Pataphysica'Ever feel like so much that passes for ‘thoughtfulness’ are just sound-bytes of gathered cultural trinkets, or that much of what passes for scholarship is a narcissistic exercise in second-hand verbiage? Well, there’s always Pataphysics. The collection of essays in Pataphysica is as good an introduction as any. Might as well give it a try, or a push.