For those not familiar, Tomm is a photographer and author who wrote highly unorthodox books in the 2000s, most of which are now out of print.

His most infamous piece of work is called "The Blah Story," a work in 23 volumes of containing 11,338,105 words; 61,745,771 characters (with spaces); and 17,868 pages.

The substance of the book involves volumes of sentences wherein many of the words are replaced with the word 'blah.' For example:

"I blah into the room and the blah was standing there blah blah. Shocked, I immediately blah and blah blah after me. With no other recourse, I blah blah blah. That's when I realized I was blah."

This seems adjacent to the sorts of literary ideas to come out of pataphysical circles in the past, especially given that the reader is free to fill in the blank for each "blah," and consequently, construct the story through his or her imagination. Or to put it succinctly: the book invites imaginary solutions.

With 23 volumes to work with, Tomm also tries to set a few records by including the world's longest word, world's longest sentence, and world's longest poem.

A casual web search doesn't show any connection between Tomm and Pataphysics, but his work certainly seems to have that flavor.

Did you first hear about the extremely-serious and totally-not-not scientific discipline of 'Pataphysics from the song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles?

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for an example i remember in the late 90s i was searching as much for search engines as i was searching for random topics of interest that i was running through them and there was definitely not everything online, a lot of significant cultural objects had no presence anywhere in this space. i have to say i forgot the "texture" of those "close but no cigar" search results and the compromises i was making when in the mood to randomly explore them nonetheless... i think that might be an example of something that is lost.

Here is the pokemon metagross http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Metagross_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Now patagross, what would that look like?

My teacher insists that pataphysics is satire. How can I change his mind?