"The syzygy surprises and confuses. It originally comes from astronomy and denotes the alingment of three celestial bodies in a straight line. In a pataphysical context it is the pun, which Jarry called 'the syzygy of words'. It usually describes a conjunction of things, something unexpected and surprising. Next to being intentionally funny, puns demonstrate a clever use (or abuse) of grammar, syntax, pronunciation and/or semantics, often taken to a quite scientific level, such that without understanding of what is said and what is the intended meaning, the humour of the pun might be lost. Serendipity is a simple chance encounter but the syzygy has a more scientific purpose. Bök mentions Jarry saying that 'the fall of a body towards a centre is the same as the ascension of a vacuum towards a periphery'.
Combinational creativity: making unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas (bisasociation, juxtapositioning of unrelated ideas, puns, etc.). We may map this onto the antinomial and syzygystic operations of pataphysics. 'Panalogy', or parallel analogy, is a concept developed by Push Singh and Marvin Minsky. The idea behind panalogy is that our understanding of any object or action cannot easily be explained in any single conceptualisation.
Syzygy = alignment of concepts."
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