“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity,” saith Ecclesiastes. “Apostasy from apostasy,” saith the College (see Ecce Ancilla Domini). Ecclesiastes being a man of faith passes from this negation of negation to the convention of God. The College of ‘Pataphysics being an institute of, “the science of the particular” embraces convention as one more unexceptional exception. “To the demystifiers who, in their critical enterprise, settle upon the most worn out and rancid of the standard myths, we are tempted to prefer theologians, who at least have the merit of owning up without a fuss to their little absolutes.” - Marie-Louise Aulard, R.