Preview the paragraph 2.3 of the comic book Analysis - The composition of the pairs of tables .
Metaphysics of Groucho
"Metaphysics? If half is physical, the other half is? " asks Groucho - the well-known assistant to Dylan Dog - without making the time to be giving birth to what became the most celebrated of his endless jokes and perhaps without realizing that the phrase conceals more than a grain of truth (1) .
Metaphysics, that is what comes after physics. Initially it was a name which is created by later philosophers from Aristotle to refer to the texts of Aristotle who, in the order in which they were handed down, were placed after the writings on physics (2) .
It is therefore a name from the double soul in which the later meaning refined living with frank and unabashedly servile origin, as if to predict possible questions and answers allegations.
Groucho, although mistaken etymology, captures this ambivalence in metaphysics from coining a definition shabby side and the other suggesting that there is anything further in front which appear in the act of questioning.
Groucho then irony is not only stands out, because half of his line suggests a metaphysical oxymoronic nature in which the life and the mix between antithetical goes beyond mere semantics, revealing the coexistence of contradictions that are not limited to birth name as opposed to the meaning given to the passage of time.
The most important thing to note about this joke is that Tiziano Sclavi (by Groucho) along the road of unorthodox "insane irony." This approach - a sort of reverence which leads to not tackle the issue head-on, offset by the entrance of little jokes and personal way - is a constant in his comic "Dylan Dog" and in fact you can find an example in "Ucronìa" (3) , an album released after almost twenty years after the one with the joke of Groucho on the physical half.
On page 79 of "Ucronìa" reads the dialogue between the inspector and Dylan Dog Bloch.
Bloch: "We have spread their identikit, but nothing, not even a warning. Vanished into thin air. "
Dylan Dog (thought bubble): "The nothing".
"The nothing exists or does not exist? What would you say Knock ...? Perhaps the reality is a non-zero ... a trifle ... "
Bloch:" Well, I leave you, old boy. "
"I'm going to get me fired by the superintendent."
Dylan Dog, "Hello, old and thanks for everything."
Bloch: "You're welcome. And 'the case to say: nothing. "
The trend of this series of words and thoughts is tortuous.
is not a real dialogue because Bloch talks while Dylan Dog mentally elaborates what the inspector says, in a sequence of clouds that, for the sudden changes of course, taste the dream. The word "nothing" is called by Bloch with no intention of calling into question the philosophy, but Dylan Dog takes the weight drastically bringing in another context - yes metaphysical - made of nothing, and nothing really. At the end of the sequence, however, Bloch regains anything of that (has become "nothing") due from the field of metaphysics to that of her concerns and disappointments of inspector away from retirement.
Quest'altalena's thoughts turned to nothing so much everyday (nothing if Bloch's pension will be fired) than in a nothingness that is the idea of \u200b\u200banything reminiscent of the tension in the bar found in the metaphysics of Groucho.
And in the midst of all this stands the reasoning of Dylan Dog - the "insane irony? - Who himself nonchalantly pass by anything non-zero up to the trifle.
Always "Ucronìa" is yet another example of this approach by Sclavi. Knock Professor explains that quantum physics in the core of the particle can exist simultaneously in two conditions, intact or disintegrated, until an observer does not examine it. According to an effective metaphor (4) physicist Erwin Schrödinger if you close a cat in a box you can not tell if he's alive or dead until you reopen the box to view it. In the comic
the box is replaced with the pair of tables (on the composition of the pairs of tables I wrote this article). In the table of the cat's in the box and Dylan Dog for nothing if not the quantum of abuse against a helpless animal. Until you turns the table (action that coincides with the opening of the box) you can not know whether the cat is alive or dead. What happens turning the page? It turns out that in case there are two cats, a live and atro dead!
As in previous cases an argument "institutional" is upset with a detour to a new territory, where reigned the absurd and the unexpected. It seems to me that there is by Sclavi is a sort of shyness that leads him to visit this type of argument with a veil of respect and the desire to surprise the reader, leading him away from plaster treatments and pedantic.
NOTES
(1) Tiziano Sclavi and Grassani & Montanari, "The Twilight Zone," in Dylan Dog Collection Book, Sergio Bonelli Editore, Milan, 1996 [1987], p.. 41.
(2) Abbagnano Nicola and Giovanni Fornero, characters and texts of philosophy, Vol I, Pearson, Turin, 1996, p.. 304: "The term" metaphysics "is not Aristotelian. With it the tradition back and have indicated (...) that part of philosophy that investigates the deep structures of the real and ultimate causes, which go beyond the immediate appearances of the senses or field of study of physics. To indicate that rule, Aristotle used the term "first philosophy." Although the birth of the word metaphysics is random, because it seems that it goes back to Andronicus of Rhodes, in the first century AD, by ordering the Aristotelian works, put "half fusika TY", that is after the physics books, works of philosophy first, posterity has preferred to indicate the name of metaphysics, perhaps because most evocative and poignant, what Aristotle called "first philosophy".
(3) Tiziano Sclavi Saudelli and Franco, "Ucronìa ', in Dylan Dog, No 240, Sergio Bonelli Editore, Milan, 2006, p.. 79.
(4) Bruno Corazza, "Schroedinger's cat, or where the moon when I look at?" Site http://scientiaemunus.provincia.parma.it ; in this article the author speaks of parallel universes connected to the paradox of Schrödinger's cat: "You may think that the theory is superfluous, so to speak, by providing an infinite number of universes "parallel", but communication among themselves. We might think that it is possible universes of which one, one in which we find ourselves, it is made. But we can not exclude, if it comforts us to think that maybe in another universe we are in a happier, that all possible universes are made. But remain steadfast passsaggio the impossibility of from one to another and that it can somehow have evidence that other universes exist. "
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