This issue deals with Pataphysica as expoused by Jarry and current interpretations by Canadian writers. The introductory essay by the Editors, Christian Bok and Darren Werschler-Henry, indicates that " 'Pataphysics (a neologism fraught with polysemy) makes its debut at the turn of the century when Ubu, the nihilist scaramouche, describes himself as a "Professor of 'pataphysics, a branch of science which we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Jarry precedes the orthography of the French word 'pataphysique with an apostrophe in order to avoid a "simple pun", but ironically enough, such a diacritical mark only signals, as present by proxy, what is absent by edict, so that the word invokes apostrophically the homophonic phrases that it revokes catastrophically. Ubu, for example is a slapstick comedian (pataud physique ) of unhealthy obesity (pateax physique), whose bodily language (patois physique) foments an astounded physics (epatee physique) that is not your physics (pas ta physique). 'Pataphysiques embodies a polysemic fusion of both poetry and science, insofar as the French idiom for the English word "flair," la patte (the hand of the artist, the "paw" of the style), appears in the homophonic phrase patte physique - the flair of physics." This issue also contains a contribution by Cozette de Charmoy "Ten Fingers - Several Hands" in which she described and depicted various attributes of the fingers or hands of famous figures in history. damian lopes contributed three visuals, one of which is a schematic of a spirometer that he labeled "Linguistic metabolizer." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.