"Another important department is Adynata, or Impossibilia. Like Urban Planning for Gypsies. The essense of the discipline is the comprehension of the underlying reasons for a thing's absurdity. We have courses in Morse syntax, the history of antartic agriculutre, the history of Easter Island painting, contemporary Sumerian literature, Montessori grading, Assyrian-Babylonian philately, the technology of the wheel in pre-Columbian empires, and the phonetics of the silent film."
Jacopo Belbo in Umberto Eco' "Foucault's Pendulum"
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