ABSTRACT
There is a phrase in French which says: ‘n’est pas fou qui veut’—it takes some talent to be a lunatic. It takes some philosophical talent to write nonsense texts, which accounts for the fascination they have always held for philosophers. It is easy to understand whythere is a philosophy of language implicit in the very word ‘nonsense’; the choice of which to name a brand new literary genre cannot have been entirely innocent.
