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GeneralUmm, What happened to me yesterday... Pin
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OriginalGriff20-Feb-16 23:10
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GeneralWould the (late) Umberto Eco want us to remember ... this ? PinPopular
BillWoodruff20-Feb-16 22:09
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Or, with a twinkle in his sparkling eyes, would he delight in our forgetting ... this ?

Rose | [Rose]

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing--you can always repent, atone--but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing."

Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"

"In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world. The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance."

Umberto Eco, "In the Name of the Rose"

"The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."

Umberto Eco, "In the Name of the Rose"
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”

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JokeGo manage someone else... Pin
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