Cacopedia
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The School of Comparative Irrelevance is a fictional school in the novel Foucault's Pendulum, with its list of subjects such as Adynata or Impossibilia (such as Morse Syntax and Urban Planning for Gypsies) and Oxymoronics.
- 'Listen, Jacopo, I thought of a good one: Urban Planning for Gypsies.'
- 'Great,' Belbo said admiringly. 'I have one, too: Aztec Equitation.'
- 'Excellent. But would that go with Potio-section or the Anynata?'
- 'We'll have to see.' Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. 'Potio-section...' He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. 'Potio-section, as everybody knows, is the art of slicing soup. No, no,' he said to Diotallevi. 'It's not a department, it's a subject, like Mechanical Avunculogratulation or Pylocatabasis. They all fall under the heading of Tetrapyloctomy.'
- 'What's tetra...?'
- 'The art of splitting a hair four ways. Mechanical
- Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles.' (74)
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