In this third issue of Pataphysica, we find a host of articles having to do with the maaaaa-chine. Excuse me. The maaaaa-chine. Oh, dear. It happened again. Let me start afresh. These contributions, all of them brilliant, come directly from the field of pataphysics. The writers, all of them working pataphysicians or pataphysicists, include Eric Basso, mIEKAL aND, Benjamin Pryor, Christy Wampole, Brisbane di Milo, Megan Volpert, Heather Wagner, Anthony Enns, Nicholas Lowe, Christopher Fritton, and Alejandro Riberi.