No, that’s not a typo… I didn’t mean to write “metaphor.” A pataphor is an obscure concept derived from the equally obscure parody science known as ‘pataphysics, the “science of imaginary solutions” invented by a French writer named Alfred Jarry in the late 1800s. Think of a pataphor as a metaphor created on top of an existing metaphor. For example: “Grab life by…