Alfred Jarry's (1873-1907) Pataphysics, more than anything else, is a study
of conceptualization - especially the referential or metaphoric conceptuals
we generate with words and symbolics of various sorts.

Beatle songwriter Paul McCartney studied Jarry’s pataphysics, as did
James Joyce, Duchamp, Picasso, and Artaud; as well as Miro, Tinguely,
Apollinaire, Borges, Calvino, Ionesco, Jacques Lacan, Julian Barnes;
Michel Foucault, and renowned tres moderne composer John Cage,
who famously noted that pataphysics "influenced everybody".

'Pataphysics is about the pragmatics of “meaning”. It’s about half-addressed allegories,
augmenting adjectives, generic signifiers, and deliberate focus on exaggerated advantages
in the fact that all words, sentences, and other symbolic or referential communication
can, at best, be only fuzzy representations. They can never amount to more than
some significant degree of allegory or metaphor.